Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Matcha

Matcha comes from Japan and is obtained from the organic farming and cultivated mainly in Nishio and Uji in Ky To. Matcha tea bushes growing in the shade and they are four weeks before harvest. Thus, the leaves receive the strong dark-green hue, which also contains the natural amino acids and from the popular green tea is produced. The tea leaves are ground before being processed for the matcha powder, steamed and dried, then in granite stone mills at a very fine powder. For this purpose, must be broken with a bamboo whisk in the so-called: Chado, this is the Teeweg, the tea leaves are fixed. This yields approximately 1kg Matcha are almost 11kg tea leaves and needs to get about 30g to need the granite stone mills for almost an hour. The processing of fine matcha powder for fine tea is expensive and so the tea is also sold quite expensive. In the Japanese tea ceremony, the matcha used only the highest quality. The green tea has a very intense green color and flavorslightly tart, but it contains some vitamins such as A, B, C, E and carotene. Matcha tea is certainly not for every day, but you should have tried him yourself. The tea should be drunk from a matcha bowl, you take 1 to 2 grams of powder that is poured over about 60 to 100 ml of hot water and should according to the traditional tea ceremony, then with a bamboo broom, the so-called Cha-sen to be beaten until foamy correct and the higher and firmer the foam, the better managed one of the tea. In the case of the traditional tea ceremony, only soft and used by 60 degrees hot water. For the preparation of very strong tea, the Koi-cha, is a lot of matcha powder is used, but only a little water and in the preparation of thin tea, is the Usu-cha of matcha stirred brewed with more water and strengthens.

Apr 21, 2010 2:30:22 AM

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