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Red Onion Tea: Immune Boosting Tea for Congestion and Cough

This homemade red onion tea recipe is great for congestion and cough, with apples, red onion and cinnamon being the main ingredients.
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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 red Onion
  • 2 whole apples
  • 2-3 cinnamon sticks
  • honey to taste
  • 1 inch fresh ginger optional
  • 5-6 whole cloves optional
  • 5-6 rose hips optional
  • 1 tablespoon elderberries optional

Method
 

  1. Wash your apples well as you will be keeping the skin on and using the entire apple.
  2. Cut your red onion and apples into fourths.
  3. Put your red onion, apples, and cinnamon sticks in a large pot.
  4. Fill with water until the ingredients are covered completely.
  5. Bring to a boil, then lower heat to low, cover, and simmer for 30-45 min.
  6. Run tea through a colander
  7. Add honey and enjoy!

Notes

Traditional Dominican red onion tea only calls for apples, red onion, and cinnamon. The rest of the ingredients are there to enhance it.
Many people leave the skin on the onion, but I save that for my homemade bone broth.
Do not throw away the apple cores and seeds, it all goes in the tea!
Do not worry about the apples being perfect. In fact, I usually make red onion tea when I see my apples are about to go bad.