Apple Tea Recipe with Cinnamon
Updated: September 14, 2023, By Swasthi Shreekanth
Homemade Apple Tea is a refreshing, soothing & comforting drink that’s nothing like the one you get in those cartons. Make it from scratch under 10 minutes, it’s worth both for flavor and taste!! Tea is a staple around the world and has been enjoyed for a millennia. It’s a versatile drink and is made in numerous flavors.
Apple Tea is one of the greatest drinks originated in Turkey. This recipe will help you make the best refreshing Apple Tea at home, using nothing more than pantry staples and of course fresh apples!!
If you love experimenting with different teas then you are more likely to love this drink. This warming and delicious apple tea is very versatile and can also be infused with different spices and herbs. Each of these add its own flavor & aroma.
About Turkish Apple Tea
Like Indians, people of Turkey love drinking tea at all times of the day. However, unlike in India, where tea is often boiled, the Turks have an infusion way of making the tea and use one teapot on top of the other. It is a modern take on the old samovar.
The lower kettle is used for boiling the water and the upper one is used for making concentrated tea. The water is not boiled for too long and once the tea leaves are put in it, the heat is reduced to a minimum for the tea to steep well. The tea concentration from the upper pot is diluted with water from the lower one till the desired strength is reached.
Turkish Apple Tea is actually made with dried apples following the similar steeping method. It is now also available as an instant tea in that part of the world and other places where it is exported. It is a variation that is much loved by tourists there.
However, instead of using the instant tea, you can make your apple tea, using your favorite tea leaves and fresh seasonal apples, adding other ingredients to make it even more delicious and refreshing.
If you are not a fan of tea, you can simply make this omitting the tea completely.
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Ingredients
- Tea: You may use it in any form like loose leaf tea or tea bags. I’ve normally use black tea, masala tea, green tea, rooibos or oolong. I always feel more than the kind of tea it is apples that adds flavor to this drink. So feel free to use what you have on hand.
- Apples: Use fresh sweet apples for best flavor. If you love tart taste in your apple tea, use tart apples. A lot of times I make this to use up the surplus apples in the fridge. So use what you want to.
- Ginger: Fresh and dried ginger both work here. It infuses warm flavors & adds a bit of heat. The sweetness in the apples balance the sharp taste of ginger.
- Cinnamon: Cinnamon is not only a sweet and warming spice, but it also has a strong smell and pleasant taste. While Ceylon cinnamon is purer and has milder and sweeter flavor, you can also use cassia cinnamon if you want. Cinnamon goes particularly well with apples as a combination, each complementing the other in terms of flavor and taste.
- Lemon juice: Lemon is high in Vitamin C. You may add it once the temperature of the apple tea comes down. It’s tangy, fresh and citrusy flavors will enhance the flavor of your apple tea.
- Black pepper: I love a dash of black pepper during those cold days. It adds warmth to the drink.
Do you really need a sweetener?
If your apples are sweet enough you really don’t need to add any sweetener. Refined cane sugar, monk fruit sugar, jaggery, regular or manuka honey can also be used for their soothing properties.
While this apple cinnamon tea is best made and had fresh, you can also refrigerate and reheat it before having.
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This recipe post was first published in Nov 2013, updated in October 2026
Apple Tea Recipe (Apple Cinnamon Tea)
Ingredients
- 3 cups water
- 1 apple (sweet apple)
- 1 inch cinnamon piece (⅛ to ¼ tsp ground cinnamon)
- ½ inch ginger (peeled, crushed or minced)
- 1 tablespoon Lemon juice (optional)
- 4 black pepper corn crushed (or ground pepper) (optional)
- 2 tea bags or 1 tsp leaves or ½ tsp dust (adjust to taste)
- 1 tablespoon honey or sugar if required (optional)
Method
- Pour water to a pot and add ginger, cinnamon and black pepper (if using). Bring this to a boil on a medium heat & simmer for 5 to 7 mins, until you smell the cinnamon.
- Meanwhile rinse, peel and chop the apple to small bite sized pieces or grate it.
- Add the apple & tea to the boiling spiced water and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and cover the pot.
- Let rest for 5 mins & strain the apple tea, pressing down the pulp. Add sweetener & lemon juice if you want.
- Serve apple tea warm or hot. You can also eat up the warm mushy apple.
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Comments
Great recipe! I was wondering whether this could be stored and for how long?
Thanks. Yes you can store it for a week
Thanks and it’s delicious
Glad you like it
I’m going to try this as I have never had it before but what’s the honey thing? Don’t add to hot tea? Curious why.
Thanks
Hi CJ,
It’s ideal to cool down a bit and then mix it.
It is a common belief, but honey does not become toxic or harmful when heated. Some of the enzymes are destroyed, so the nutrition is altered. But it can not hurt you.
Thank you so much for the apple tea recipe. We used to drink this delicious drink during our Turkey tour 2 weeks back and was eager to know about the drink. Now I will be able to drink it at home only!!! So thanx again.
Welcome Susmita
Thank you so much. Hope you will enjoy the apple tea.
Thank you so much for the Apple cinnamon tea recipe. It’s delicious
welcome Linda
Glad to know you liked it
thanks for the feedback
I am a green tea lover and always prefer adding mint leaves and occasionally add black pepper & cinnamon powder but this apple cinnamon was totally different!
Thank you
wow thats a super refreshing and yummy flavored tea 🙂
I will surely try this as the weather here is chilly these days….
Purely exotic and drool worthy drink..The color makes me die for it !
Lovely and refreshing tea 🙂
Lovely tea 🙂 will try this sometime Swasti
love to try this way to warm up the winter.
So wonderful and refreshing tea! Thanks for sharing….
Interesting!! would love to try 🙂
Refreshing and perfect for the weather!!
So refreshing. Wow. Bookmarked. I do not drink tea but I want to try this. <br />Thanks for sharing.