Pineapple Skin Tea 🍍 Low Waste Recipe!

Get more from your pineapple and give a second life to the peel and core with this pineapple skin tea. Ready in 30 minutes with immune boosting additions and you can enjoy it hot or cold. If you watched our last video I made a pineapple quinoa stir fry and every time I buy a fresh pineapple I want to get as much out of it as possible. So if you want to stretch your pineapple a little further and make a delicious tea out of the parts that you can't eat then here are some things to keep in mind. As always when consuming the skin of a fruit if you can buy organic then that can help to minimize the contaminants that might be in this tough exterior skin. Organic or not start by washing your pineapple. At least run it under cool water and scrub it clean with a clean vegetable brush and you can soak your pineapple in a solution of vinegar and water for 15 to 30 minutes and then rinse your pineapple with fresh water. Once your pineapple has been cleaned you can slice off the crown and the base and start removing that tough exterior skin. You can use the greenish brown skin for this tea recipe but since this pineapple isn't organic I'm actually going to thinly slice off the thick greenish brown skin and use the next layer of yellow flesh that has these spiky fibrous eyes that are unpleasant to eat and a pain to remove. So I'm discarding the very exterior of the pineapple and using this yellow flesh with all of these spiky bits. I'm also going to cut out the core of the pineapple which is also tough and unpleasant to eat so I have this nice clean yellow flesh to enjoy and all these less pleasant parts to use for this tea. Add the pineapple peel and core to a large pot and cover with six cups cold filtered water. Add one cinnamon stick, three quarter teaspoon ground turmeric, just a pinch of black pepper for better turmeric absorption, I promise you won't taste it, and about one inch sliced ginger. Bring the water to a boil then reduce the heat to a low simmer and simmer with the lid on for 25 minutes. Add one tablespoon maple syrup or sweetener of your choice and simmer for an additional five minutes. Remove from the heat, strain, and enjoy hot or cold. To enjoy this tea cold, allow it to cool down, strain it, and then refrigerate it until it's fully chilled. This is so surprisingly delicious I really can't wait for you to try this one and if you love low waste recipes then hit that subscribe button. This pineapple skin tea recipe makes five and a half cups of tea and costs us around 30 cents in addition to the cost of the pineapple. And let me know in the comments below if you want to see more creative ways to use the parts of fruits and vegetables that we typically throw away because we're missing out. It's a good thing I don't have sensitive teeth because I'm going back and forth.