Matcha Ice Cream

Green Tea Matcha Ice Cream Recipe With and Without Ice Cream Maker

Matcha, Japanese green tea powder now famous all over the world in its matcha latte and iced matcha preparations, lends itself to countless preparations of fresh and delicate sweets and desserts. To prepare for the arrival of summer, we want to offer you the recipe for matcha ice cream, or matcha aisu, very popular in Japan and other parts of the world, in a completely vegan version to be made with or without an ice cream maker.

Matcha Ice Cream: Recipe

The matcha ice cream is an excellent fresh and delicate dessert, perfect for summer days as a snack or as an elegant after-dinner treat, with an unusual and enveloping flavor characteristic of the precious matcha tea. In this article, we want to offer you a recipe to make at home vegan matcha ice cream, suitable even for those who are lactose intolerant. The proposed recipe is very simple and quick to make, but it requires the use of an ice cream maker. If you don't have one at home, don't worry: we will propose an alternative method to prepare matcha ice cream even without an ice cream maker!

Ingredients

• 1 cup of raw cashews, soaked overnight
• 320 grams of coconut cream
• 1/3 cup of agave syrup
• 3 teaspoons of Organic Matcha Tea from Japan
• Coconut flakes for decoration

Procedure

• Put the drained cashews, coconut cream, agave syrup, and matcha tea in a blender and blend until smooth and lump-free.
• Pour the liquid into the ice cream maker and let it set.
• If you don't have an ice cream maker, place the mixture in the freezer, take it out every half hour to vigorously mix it and break the ice crystals, continue until you achieve the consistency and creaminess of ice cream.
• Once ready, serve the matcha ice cream in a glass or in an ice cream cone, preferably artisanal, and garnish with coconut flakes. In Japan, matcha ice cream is also served in monaka, typical rice wafers, and consumed during the tea ceremony.

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Tips and Variations

The matcha ice cream recipe is an excellent base to customize to your liking: you can incorporate spices or other elements into your matcha ice cream, from vanilla to edible flowers, perfect for giving a gourmet touch and making this green ice cream even more aesthetically pleasing. Matcha ice cream is also perfect for creating an unusual dessert, accompanying it with a fruit salad or a cookie wafer: we want to offer you the recipe for matcha affogato, to be made just like you would with coffee, using your homemade matcha ice cream!

Ingredients

• Matcha Ice Cream
• Plant-based Milk (we recommend almond or oat)
• Ice

For preparation, put ice in a glass and pour plant-based milk over it. Add two scoops of matcha ice cream and decorate as desired.

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Which Matcha to Use?

We know that there are different types of matcha that differ in "grade", based on the quality of the leaves from which they are derived. For the matcha ice cream recipe, you can use the lowest grade matcha, 'culinary grade', which is specifically used in gastronomic preparations, as long as it is pure and cultivated and processed according to the correct methods, like the culinary grade matcha available at Terza Luna, organic and traditionally grown. You can also choose a more precious product with a more intense flavor such as the premium grade matcha or the ceremonial grade matcha, which you can find in the matcha tea section at Terza Luna, or even the Chai Matcha, a matcha enriched with Indian spices, an exclusive creation of Terza Luna, to give a spicy touch to your ice cream.

All matcha teas at Terza Luna are organic, pure, and from Japan, and you can choose from the various grades of the highest quality.

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