30 May 2020 - MATCHAZUKI

You’ll see that donuts are trending right now. Many shops are starting to make donuts in various forms. New shops that specialize in donuts are opening up. Even a famous fried chicken brand is mixing donuts into their menu at Matchazuki. So, we can’t miss out on some great ideas from a new donut shop in Kyoto, Koe Donut, and Floresta Nature Donuts, a donut shop known for its cuteness, one of Japan’s top shops.

At Koe Donuts, you’ll find a variety of unusual donuts and flavors not available in Thailand, including the matcha donut topped with pistachio nuts. While every donut in the shop is made with simple ingredients for a traditional donut taste, the freshness of the donuts, made in-house every morning, and the abundance of creative ideas make this shop a must-visit for anyone visiting Kyoto. The shop also features a “Powder Factory,” where you can watch the donuts being made live while enjoying them. The brand’s goal is to create a connection between Japanese culture, fashion, modern design, and food, and to share this message with the world in various forms. Therefore, each donut is beautifully presented and unlike any other, such as using large beans, a signature ingredient in Japanese wagashi (Japanese sweets), as a topping. Kyoto is renowned for its delicious matcha, so the shop offers the Uji matcha tiramisu donut melt, which reimagines the familiar donut experience in the form of a cake.

See the map : https://goo.gl/maps/cpa9MAamNvmZMzDb8

See more ideas at https://www.instagram.com/koe_donuts/?hl=en

Another shop that many people are already familiar with is Floresta nature donuts in the Koenji area of Tokyo. This shop uses organic flour, the doughnut texture is a bit coarse, typical of wholewheat flour, and they come in many shapes. They also have donuts shaped like cute animals, using various flavors of glaze, such as green tea, chocolate, and strawberry, to make the desserts cute and bright. Forget the image of normal round donuts with a hole in the middle. This shop has many branches outside of Tokyo, including in Nara, Kyoto, and Osaka.

After getting creative ideas for donuts in various forms, we will continue with ideas for green tea donut menus with 3 types of decorations that use few ingredients and are very easy to make, including:

Matcha Glaze is very easy to make. Just mix matcha powder and icing sugar together, then pour in almond milk and stir until combined. Then, dip donuts in the matcha glaze. The ingredients for this recipe include:

½ cup icing sugar
⅛ to ¼ teaspoon matcha powder, depending on how green you want your dessert.
1 tablespoon almond milk

2. Matcha Cane Sugar This one is not very dark green tea color. Start by dipping the finished donuts in coconut oil, then roll them in cane sugar and green tea powder that have been mixed together beforehand. You will get light green non-nuts. The ingredients for this recipe are:

½ cup cane sugar
¼ to ½ teaspoon matcha powder, depending on how green you want your dessert.
⅓ cup coconut oil

3. Matcha Powdered Sugar After frying the donuts, dip them in the green tea powder and icing that were mixed together beforehand. The powder will stick to the donut dough, giving it another green color and texture. The ingredients for this recipe include:

½ cup icing sugar
¼ to ½ teaspoon matcha powder, depending on how green you want your dessert.

Or if you’d like to make donuts out of matcha dough and decorate them with white chocolate or white icing to contrast the donuts, it’s another beautiful and delicious look. Or even changing the shape of a matcha donut that you’ve already made into other shapes will make it even more delicious and will definitely make you want to take a photo and share it on social media.

Source

https://twitter.com/hashtag/florestadoughnuts

https://thesweetwanderlust.com/sweets-eats/best-desserts-in-tokyo/

http://www.supertastermel.com/2015/05/cute-animal-donuts-at-floresta.html

https://www.loveandlemons.com/matcha-baked-doughnuts/

Article from : Fuwafuwa

Many people may be familiar with Cold Brew coffee, which is sweeter than coffee brewed using other methods due to its low acidity. Cold water extracts lower levels of caffeine than hot water. Tea lovers may wonder, can tea be processed in the same way as Cold Brew coffee?

The principle behind Cold Brew is cold extraction. You can use water at room temperature or cold water (5-15 degrees Celsius). Normally, if we use hot water to make tea, the catechins and caffeine in the tea leaves will come out with the hot water because these two substances dissolve at high temperatures, around 80-90 degrees Celsius and above. These two substances will give a bitter taste. Meanwhile, the umami taste of tea that many people like to enjoy, which is caused by amino acids, will dissolve at temperatures from 60 degrees Celsius and above. Therefore, green teas rich in umami flavor, such as Gyokuro, must be brewed with water at a temperature of 40-60 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, if we steep the tea leaves in cold water, the bitter taste of the tea will be less than when brewed hot. This is suitable for those who like to drink tea with a smooth umami flavor.

How to make cold brew tea, both black tea and oolong tea

Use 4 grams of tea leaves per 200-250 ml of water.
Put the tea leaves in a disposable tea bag.
Place the tea bag with the tea leaves in the water and close the lid tightly.
Soak the tea in the refrigerator for 6-12 hours.
Once it’s done, remove the tea bag. This cooled tea can be stored in the refrigerator for about 3-4 days without any change in taste or added bitterness.

But be careful with green tea, it can become bitter very easily. Reduce the amount of tea to 3 grams of tea leaves per 500 ml of water and steep the tea for only 3-6 hours. Normally, when brewing hot tea, we usually get a fragrant smell from the brewing, but brewing cold brew tea will not have a fragrant smell that is inviting to drink.

Although cold-brewed tea leaves can be re-brewed hot, the flavor will be less, so it’s best to discard them.

To use green tea powder to make Cold Brew, put 1 teaspoon of tea powder into a bottle with a lid and pour in 1.5 cups of water. Close the lid and shake for about 15 seconds.

Source

https://pickledplum.com/cold-brew-tea/

https://theteacupoflife.com/2019/04/cold-brew-matcha.html

https://matchaoutlet.com/blogs/recipes/cold-brew-summer-matcha-drink

Article from: Fuwafuwa

Day: May 30, 2020

Various ideas with green tea donuts

Can tea be made into cold brew?