Green Tea Ice Cream - Recommendations

[syar]

So Christmas is over for another year but as a present I brought my mum an ice cream maker as she has wanted one for a while (and I don't want to keep paying £4 for B&J's). I also got her a nice ice cream recipe book. In the book there is a recipe for green tea ice cream which sounds very nice. The recipe calls for green tea leaves (well duh! lol) so I thought I would come onto Adagio for some green tea leaves as I don't have any in the cupboard but I can't decide what to buy that would work well as ice cream

Has anyone hear tried the teas in ice cream before? could anyone give me advice of which blend to try. Any help would be much appreciated. Oh and I would love to buy from Adagio as I know they sell good quality tea, and so what should result in a better ice cream than store brought leaves

[tenuki]

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So Christmas is over for another year but as a present I brought my mum an ice cream maker as she has wanted one for a while (and I don't want to keep paying £4 for B&J's). I also got her a nice ice cream recipe book. In the book there is a recipe for green tea ice cream which sounds very nice. The recipe calls for green tea leaves (well duh! lol) so I thought I would come onto Adagio for some green tea leaves as I don't have any in the cupboard but I can't decide what to buy that would work well as ice cream

Has anyone hear tried the teas in ice cream before? could anyone give me advice of which blend to try. Any help would be much appreciated. Oh and I would love to buy from Adagio as I know they sell good quality tea, and so what should result in a better ice cream than store brought leaves

I would think green tea ice cream would call for powdered green tea in the recipe. This would be powdered sencha, not matcha, as it is usually cheaper. I regularly eat green tea ice cream made locally here in Bangkok. It's the best one I've ever had. I'll ask them next time I see the owner what they use. She is Japanese.

[gingkoseto]

I think green tea powder will be better than green tea leaves. Once the Batkin Robins in Toronto offered green tea ice cream every Thursday. Theirs was made with green tea leaves, tasted great but the numerous tea leaf crumbs in the ice cream were kind of annoying.

[Chip]

... there is food grade matcha. I have used matcha a lot in many things, haven't tried the powdered sencha ... yet. I often use dribs and drabs of older matcha as well.

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... there is food grade matcha. I have used matcha a lot in many things, haven't tried the powdered sencha ... yet. I often use dribs and drabs of older matcha as well.

I think the matcha is smoother tasting than the powdered sencha but when it's put into a recipe like ice cream, it probably doesn't matter too much which one is used as the sugar usually overpowers the subtleties.

[gingkoseto]

I highly recommend this from asian grocery


It's several dollars for half a pound. I use it in all kinds of dessert, gave sister in law half a bag, but it still lasts forever and may never be used up

[twinofmunin]

I have made quite good green tea ice cream using powdered sencha... certainly nothing fancy; I think it was Stash's powdered iced green tea or whatever (it was in the cabinet; this was pre-TeaChat for me). It worked out nicely, though, in a custard ice cream base... I'm sure you could do better, but for a recipe I made up on the spot, I rather liked it. I think it's tricky to go wrong with green tea ice cream? I was under the impression that it's basically just ice cream with matcha mixed in; no tricks.

[mbishop]

I'm not sure what they used, but at the local Japanese restaurant called Osaka I ordered green tea ice cream, and it was clearly just matcha in vanilla. The color was good (nice and green) but there were a few bites that tasted...kind of stringy. Maybe left over veins or something...doubt they buy really quality stuff to make their ice cream, might even be ground sencha or something.

[beachape]

Yeah powdered will be better. Just don't use anything too expensive.

[tenuki]

Yeah powdered will be better. Just don't use anything too expensive.

LOL - I use ceremonial grade organic matcha cause it tastes better to me.