This tea is perfect on a cold winter night. A great alternative to mulled wine or hot chocolate.

Ingredients:

Directions:

1. Place a small amount of boiling water in the tea pot to warm it up. Discard.
2. Add tea bags, cinnamon, cloves and star anise to the tea pot and add the 4 cups (1 L) of boiling water.
3. Let steep for 3 to 5 minutes and remove the teabags. Let steep for 2 minutes longer and serve immediately.

Makes 4 servings.

ESHA Note: Green tea bags were used for nutritional analysis of recipe. Additionally, ½ tsp ground cinnamon was substituted for cinnamon stick, ½ tsp ground cloves for 5 whole cloves, 5 anise seeds for whole star anise and ½ tsp vanilla extract for vanilla pod.