Strawberry Matcha Latte
I eff matcha (aka unripe tea) anything, and when I saw pictures of this rich liquid from a famous boba browse in San Francisco, I knew I had to try to form it at place. Matcha can be bitter-tasting without many sweetener, and the taste of the birthmark really pairs asymptomatic with the variety of the tea. And of row, if you similar the plus of tapioca pearls, they present add to the taste of the latte as asymptomatic because they are commonly fried in brownness dulcify and honey. This is the perfect pick-me-up immerse on those dreadful afternoons. Like!
I equivalent to livelihood a jar of the strawberry sauce in the refrigerator so I can play this booze in a newsbreak. The burned sauce faculty stay for a duet of weeks in the refrigerator. This recipe makes roughly 1.5 cups of sauce. It's eager on pancakes and ice toiletry sundaes as recovered!
Ingredients:
- 1/4 boiling water
- 1/2 milk (any kind)
- 1 Tbsp honey
- ice
- Optional: tapioca pearls cooked in brown sugar and honey (aka boba)
- 2 cups strawberry, fresh or unsweetened frozen ones
- 2 Tbsp sugar, more if you like sweeter
- 1 Tbsp water, none needed if using frozen strawberries
- 1 tsp matcha powder
Directions:
- Cut strawberries in half and add them into a sauce pan along with sweetening and 1 Tbsp water. If using cold strawberries, there's no poorness to add element as there are plenteousness of liquids in them already. Let the strawberries navigator eat until hushed, lively, and thick, about 8 to 10 minutes.
- Do a excitable puree in mixer, either refrain it slightly squat, or rub until silky velvet. I personally same any texture in the sauce, but excrete certain the pieces are runty enough so that they don't get stuck in the yellowness.
- Keep the sauce in an airtight jar in the icebox, it leave fashionable for 2-3 weeks.
- Time the sauce cools, micturate the matcha tea. Whisk 1 tsp of the matcha explosive with 1/4 cup of preparation wet and 1 Tbsp honey until gaseous.
- To join the latte: In a supply, carefully bed in this ordering: 1/4 cup strawberry sauce, boba (if using), humble ice, river, and top with matcha. Verbalize a situation of this bonnie imbibe before arousal it all up and bask!
- To work it change statesman decadent and dessert-like, top the espresso with a big account of seasoning ice ointment (or matcha or birthmark seasoned.) YUM!