Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, green tea kanten. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Green Tea Kanten is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Green Tea Kanten is something that I have loved my entire life.
We draw inspiration from ancient artisanal practices as well as modern culinary innovation. Rishi strives to be a wellspring of resources and inspiration as you learn about your teas Mix the ☆ matcha and water. Add all the ◎ ingredients to a pot, and heat. Please make sure to use water for the kanten.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green tea kanten using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Tea Kanten:
- Prepare 2 tsp ☆ Matcha
- Prepare 1 heaping tablespoon ☆Water
- Prepare 4 tbsp ◎Granulated sugar
- Get 4 grams ◎Kanten powder
- Get 430 ml ◎Water
- Take Your favorite toppings:
- Take 1 I recommend "Kinako Roasted Soybean Powder Whipped Cream ♪"
- Make ready 1 etc. Other toppings: Amanatto, mochi balls, kuromitsu
Using a small spatula or spoon, blend the paste and matcha until the mixture is homogeneous. You can buy Kanten powder at Japanese super market. FLAN - MATCHA GREEN TEA What is "KANTEN" ? "KANTEN" means Agar in Japanese. The essence is extracted from the Agar Weeds by boiling water and freeze-dried.
Steps to make Green Tea Kanten:
- Mix the ☆ matcha and water.
- Add all the ◎ ingredients to a pot, and heat. Please make sure to use water for the kanten. After bring it to a boil, simmer for 1~2 minutes while stirring from the bottom of the pot.
- Turn off the heat, add the matcha from Step 1, and mix very well. If you don't mix enough, the tea may sink to the bottom.
- Transfer to a dish, and remove any bubble with a spoon or a scum-skimmer. Cool down, then chill in the refrigerator.
- I shake the container before chilling it in the fridge to prevent the matcha tea powder from sinking to the bottom, but compared to gelatin, this may not be an issue.
- After it has hardened, run a knife around the edges and unmold. If it's still difficult to unmold, it should come out easily if you warm the container.
- Cut into your desired portion sizes and transfer to serving bowls. You can enjoy this delicious, subtly sweet matcha jelly on its own.
- I used whipped kinako soy flour cream, shiratama mochi dumplings, and sugared red beans as toppings here.
- Here I froze the kinako soy flour whipped cream in the freezer, and used it as an ice cream topping. The ice cream is "toshiebaba's" idea.
- I added half heavy cream and half milk in this one. After making the kinako whipped, thin it out with milk. Scoop the kinako soy flour milk and green tea jelly together.
- My family uses tearstar's brown sugar syrup recipe -. "Simple Homemade Brown Sugar Syrup." It is really simple and delicious.
FLAN - MATCHA GREEN TEA What is "KANTEN" ? "KANTEN" means Agar in Japanese. The essence is extracted from the Agar Weeds by boiling water and freeze-dried. In particular, Japanese green tea (kamairicha) and hojicha (roasted green tea) that we used to make kanten! Both add a beautiful color and wonderful Japanese tea flavor to each bite. Have you heard of kanten before?
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