Ingredients

• 1 cup pitted cherries
• 1 (2 inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
• 3 tablespoons white sugar
• 4 cups filtered water, divided
• 4 (2 g) bags green tea
• 4 lemon slices (optional)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice, or to taste (optional)

Instructions

1. Combine cherries and ginger slices in a glass bowl. Sprinkle sugar over the cherries mixture and cover with 2 cups filtered water.
2. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate 2 hours to overnight.
3. Bring 2 cups filtered water nearly to a boil; pour over tea bags in a pitcher. Steep tea for 90 seconds. Squeeze tea bags into pitcher and discard bags.
4. Strain cherry-ginger water into pitcher with green tea, squeezing out excess liquid. Serve with lemon slices and lemon juice.