Drinking matcha or green tea requires a bit of getting used to its versatile taste. Whether you drink it the traditional way or add a few personal touches to enjoy your matcha, it’s a tea that delivers strong flavor and amazing health benefits.
If you didn’t like that one time you took a few sips of traditional hot matcha tea, we almost guarantee you will enjoy it in one of the other many forms matcha is prepared. It unlocks unlimited recipes and enhanced flavors for drinking matcha, and if you haven’t heard of any, you’re in the right place. What’s a better way to drink tea than to learn different recipes that bring out its flavor while serving you a delicious, enjoyable beverage? This article gives you a few recommendations for making matcha tea and reaping its numerous health benefits.
The Traditional Hot Matcha
Whether you’re a fan of this matcha preparation method or not, it’s how matcha used to be enjoyed traditionally back in ancient Japan. Matcha used to be made without steeping in a bowl called a Chawan and whisked with a bamboo whisk called a Chasen. However, nowadays, people are free to make hot matcha using modern tools like mugs and blenders or electric frothers to smoothen their tea and get rid of clumps. To try matcha for the first time and take in all the flavor, you have to drink it the traditional way; it introduces the versatility of the flavor to your taste buds and allows you to make the most of matcha’s health benefits at the same time.
The Matcha Smoothie
Smoothie recipes are great for people seeking those matcha benefits but can’t seem to enjoy the taste of the traditional tea. No matter how hard you cover the matcha’s taste in your smoothie, you can’t eliminate its nutritional benefits; this is what makes green smoothies so great. Try adding a tablespoon of matcha tea to your morning nutrition-packed smoothie every day to enjoy its benefits and mask its strong flavor with your smoothie ingredients. There are countless recipes available for smoothies that give you the joy of trying different flavors every day and the fun that comes with shopping for the ingredients and preparing them. Depending on your smoothie preferences, you can enjoy new and different undiscovered flavors for matcha mixed smoothies.
Pumpkin Seed Milk Matcha
While this one is considered a smoothie recipe, it is very nutritious and tasty if you’re into milkshakes. For a delicious recipe grab your blender and start by combining 1 cup of soaked pumpkin seeds, 1 teaspoon of matcha tea, either a tablespoon of honey or a few pitted dates, a teaspoon of vanilla, and half a teaspoon of salt. Blend the ingredients together until they form a creamy milk consistency; this should take about half a minute or so. After your milk is blended, use a piece of muslin cloth or a nut milk bag to strain it and pour it into your serving bottle or jug. Store this recipe in the fridge to cool before enjoying your delicious matcha pumpkin seed milk.
The Matcha Mojito or Cocktail
Additional flavors are known to soften the taste of matcha and make it more enjoyable to drink. Matcha mojitos achieve this by adding simple ingredients that change the tea’s impact on your taste buds slightly. Simply add some mint and lime to your cooled matcha to give it that mojito base that everyone enjoys. Make sure your matcha is sweetened and top it off with some lime juice and a couple of ice cubes, and you’ll end up with a refreshing matcha beverage that will top your expectations. You can also add a splash of rum to the mix and turn it into a cocktail to enjoy it even more. Most people go for the latter, obviously, but we can guarantee you will want more after trying this matcha recipe.
The best thing about matcha tea is that it can be enjoyed in every form possible for beverages. You can add it to your smoothies, make it into a slushy, drink it in a mug, or even add alcohol to this nutritious ingredient and enjoy a healthy cocktail. Most people even enjoy the strong flavor of matcha green tea; this is why the traditional way is consumed more often. We recommend starting with the hot plain matcha to test its original taste, then move gradually to more creative recipes if you’re only increasing the nutritional value and enhancing the taste.
