You can get a Matcha-style drink from ordinary loose-leaf Green Tea by grinding it fine and whisking it like matcha, rather than steeping and straining. Grind a little leaf to a powder, sift out the coarse bits, then whisk it with water just off the boil using a bamboo whisk until frothy.
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Top with steamed milk for a green tea latte. It is not true matcha, but it is a lovely, frothy way to drink green tea. Makes one bowl.
You'll need
- 3g Dilmah Ceylon Pure Green Loose Leaf Tea (1 level teaspoon)
- 160ml total water (60ml for the whisk at 75C, 100ml steamed milk)
- 100ml whole milk, steamed to 65C
- 1 220ml chawan bowl, warmed
- 1 small bamboo whisk (chasen)
- 1 small spice grinder
- 1 fine sieve for sifting
Method
- Warm a small bowl with hot water and tip it out.
- Grind a teaspoon of loose green leaf to a fine powder in a spice grinder.
- Sift the powder into the bowl through a fine sieve to remove the coarse bits.
- Boil the kettle and let it cool to about 75C, then pour 60ml over the powder.
- Whisk hard with a bamboo whisk in a W motion for about thirty seconds, until frothy.
- Warm the milk until it just steams, then pour it slowly over the frothed tea.
- Sift the ground leaf before whisking; it is what keeps the drink smooth rather than gritty.
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Brewed with: Dilmah Ceylon Pure Green Loose Leaf Tea, 100g
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