Green Tea Muffins

From the Belleville News Democrat, here's a recipe for Green Tea Muffins. The "active" ingredient, in this case, is matcha, a powder made from Japanese green tea.

Click here for the recipe. Also included, Orange Blueberry Muffins and Lemon Cranberry Muffins.

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Tea Ceremony & Matcha Recipes

The Santa Fe New Mexican recently featured a rather in-depth article on various aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony. Have a look here.

Here, from one of the Oregon papers, is an article on matcha, the powdered green tea used in the tea ceremony. Also included are recipes for Green Tea and Chive Dip, Green Tea Yogurt, Matcha Vinaigrette, Matcha Whipped Cream, and Matcha Latte.

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Tea Ices

Time to cool down, tea people.

The Los Angeles Times recently dug up a 2004 article from their archives. The topic - appropriately enough, given the season - is tea ices. Staff writer Donna Deane has put together a selection of "recipes for beautifully aromatic ices and granitas using Lapsang souchong, Earl Gray, jasmine, plum oolong, genmai cha and other teas."

I was able to access the article with no problem, but the Los Angeles Times may require that you register or pay for content after a certain period of time. Here's the link.

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Matcha Angel Food Cake & FoodView

The Coconut & Lime site posted an interesting recipe for Matcha Angel Food Cake yesterday. If you're looking for some sweet stuff with a little bit of pick-me-up, I guess this would be the one.

For those of you who might be looking for a big whopping bunch of recipes that use tea, look no further than the FoodieView recipe search engine. A search for the keyword "tea" brought back 18,534 results, which should be enough to keep you busy for a while.

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Lephet (Tea Salad)

Lephet, also known as La-phat, La-phet, or letphet, is a pickled tea salad popular in Myanmar (Burma). You can read about it here and here, though the English in both articles is a little rough. If Myanmar's too far to go and you're ever in the vicinity of Fort Wayne, Indiana, swing by Golden House Asian Cuisine and sample some.

For another spelling variation and an interesting, article on the delicacy, go to In Pursuit of Tea's Web site and read Sebastian Beckwith's short piece.

Here's an article from CuisineNet about Burmese cuisine. It offers more information about the dish, including a recipe that substitutes ginger for tea. It's probably safe to say that you could ditch the ginger and put the tea back in, though the author claims Burmese tea is a key component in the recipe.

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Cooking With Tea & Tea Recipes

Since starting TGS, I've run across a number of useful resources to assist those looking to cook with tea. Since they were scattered throughout the archives, I thought it might be useful to gather some of them together in one place.

From the New York Times, here's a recipe for Tea-Smoked Chicken Thighs With Pomegranate Glaze.

The Baltimore Sun ran an article on Tea Cuisine, that includes recipes for Chinese Tea Eggs, Chai Tea Ice Cream, and Tea-Sauced Scallops With Orange, Soy and Honey.

The Washington Times has also done their take on tea cuisine, in an article that includes recipes for Glazed Chicken Breasts in a Honey Lemon Tea, Tea and Lime Sorbet, and Tea-Smoked Scallops.

From NPR, here's a piece that ran some time back about tea, along with a Tea Primer and three recipes from Eat Tea, by Joanna Pruess with John Harney. The recipes - Lapsang Souchong Gravlax, Tea Grits and Green Fruits in Jasmine Tea Syrup.

On the Web, take a look at TeaChef, a forum for tea cuisine hosted by Adagio Teas. They hold a monthly recipe contest featuring a different tea each time and their archive contains recipes submitted in past contests.

Also on the Web:
Bigelow Tea - Recipes
Boston Tea Campaign - Recipes for Darjeeling Tea
Darjeeling Tea Network - Tea Recipes
EnjoyingTea.com - Tea Recipes
Hibiki-an - Tea Recipes
Lipton - Recipe Search
Nathmulls of Darjeeling - Tea Recipes
Simpson & Vail - Rooibos Recipes
Yogi Tea - Summer Recipes
YuzuMura - Matcha Recipes

If you're looking for tea cookbooks, here are a few to get you started:

Cooking with Green Tea: Delicious Dishes Enhanced by the Miraculous Healing Powers of Green Tea
by Ying Chang Compestine

Cooking With Tea: Techniques and Recipes for Appetizers, Entrees, Desserts, and More
by Robert Wemischner and Diana Rosen

Eat Tea: Savory and Sweet Dishes Flavored with the World's Most Versatile Ingredient
by Joanna Pruess and John Harney

Making Your Own Gourmet Tea Drinks
by Mathew Tekulsky

New Tastes in Green Tea: A Novel Flavor for Familiar Drinks, Dishes, and Desserts
by Mutsuko Tokunaga and Jane Pettigrew

Tales of a Tea Leaf: The Complete Guide to Tea Cuisine
by Jill Yates

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Tea Recipes From Down Under

Here are some tea-related recipes that have appeared in Australian Good Taste magazine over the past few years:



Iced apple & citrus tea
Vanilla & tea poached fruit
Tropical fruit salad in green tea syrup
Barley tea

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Earl Grey Cookies

I have to admit that I'm not really keen on Earl Grey tea.

If you are and you'd like to take a shot at making some Earl Grey Tea Cookies, check out this recipe from Martha Stewart Living. It uses finely ground Earl Grey tea leaves and orange zest, among other things, and appears to be a pretty simple one to make.

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Green Tea Tasting Notes & Tea Cookery

Here's a piece from the Times (London), in which a British chef offers his thoughts on some green teas. He is Nicholas Watt, head chef of Roka. He gives the thumbs up to Waitrose Organic Green Tea, Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, and Sainsbury’s Pure Green Tea. Not so spiffy were Clipper Pure Green Tea, Jacksons of Piccadilly Pure Chinese Sencha Green Tea, and Tetley Minty Green Tea Magic.

If you're itching to do some cooking with tea, check out this article from Chefs.com, with recipes for Chocolate Tea Cake and Red Dress Vanilla Rose Pound Cake.

From China Daily, here's an article about a shrimp dish made with tea leaves.

And from The Essence of Emeril, via the Food Network site, here's a recipe for Tea Smoked Quail with Chilled Noodle Salad and Kicked-Up Hoisin Sauce. We might have mentioned this one before, but here it is again.

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More Iced Tea Recipes

We've been flooded - if I dare say so - with so many iced tea recipes lately that one might reasonably conclude that it's National Iced Tea Month.

The Yogi Tea Web site has some recipes listed, among then a Rooibos Chai Float and an African Redbush Peach Smoothie.

Installment nine of the Charlotte Observer's Tea Tour looks at Great Wall of China. If you're not in that part of the world you can try this recipe for Southern-Style Sweet Iced Tea.

From the Food Network's Good Deal with Dave Lieberman, comes a recipe for the old reliable - Mint Iced Tea.

The Northwest Indiana Times recently ran an article on iced tea and tea in general. Among the recipes here are a Cold Brew Tea-Time Ice Cream Float, a Cold Brew Cranberry Mint Cooler and a Beat-The-Heat Tea Shake.

Also from the Carolinas, comes some advice from Greenville area restaurateurs. They don't offer any recipes, but there are some tips on how to make iced tea.

Then there's this brief report from the Monterey County Herald on POM Tea, whose flavors include pomegranate black tea, pomegranate lychee tea, pomegranate blackberry black tea and pomegranate peach passion white tea.

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Tea Recipes

It's time to share a few tea-related recipes I've run across recently. Actually, this first one is not so much a recipe as a nice picture and some information. It's a Green Tea Opera Cake featured at the Nordljus site. In response to the many commenters, the site owner has promised to try to get an actual recipe online.

I recently (yesterday) mentioned some iced tea recipes posted at the Sacramento CBS affiliate's page. That article also includes a recipe for Elegant Garden Teamisu, which is made with French Caramel Fudge Brulee Tea.

Chocolate And Zucchini recently featured Langues de Chat au Thé Vert, which are "classic French cookies that fall into the category of petits fours secs (dry petits fours, as opposed to miniature versions of pastries with buttercream, pastry cream, etc)". They're made with matcha and you can read all about them here.

Here's an article from one of the Australian papers about a Brisbane restaurant called Augustine's. The owner and chef there recently came up with a degustation menu that featured a different Twinings tea in each course.

As the article notes, "the dishes range from Queensland-farmed barramundi poached in lemon juice and green tea, to seared king prawn cutlets tossed in honey and chai, to duckling braised in Twinings raspberry and peach tea."

Scroll down to the end to see the recipes for Braised Duckling in Twinings Raspberry and Peach Tea and Oven Baked Pork Fillet Marinated with Twinings Blackcurrant and Apple Tea.

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Vodka Recipes & Rooibos Recipes

Some time back I wrote about a green tea-flavored vodka from Charbay Winery and Distillery. While nosing around at their Web site recently, I ran across a page that list recipes for three cocktails made using this particular spirit. There's the Angèle Green Tea Cooler, the Charbay Green Teani and the Mochi Cocktail.

Over at Simpson & Vail's Web site, they have an iced tea recipe that uses vodka and Rooibos, or redbush, an herbal "tea" from South Africa. Also at their Rooibos recipes page are various recipes for drinks, cocktails, desserts, soups and main dishes. Rooibos Fudge, anyone?

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Green Tea Ice Cream Recipe

From the Seattle Times, just in case you missed it, here's a recipe for green tea ice cream. It uses matcha, the powdered green tea also used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Though you could probably substitute another type of green tea if you absolutely had to.


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Health Tea Recipes

I ran across an interesting selection of tea recipes recently at the Enjoyingtea.com Web site. Now, before I go on let me say that I'm rather on the skeptical side when it comes to many of the high-falutin' claims put forth for tea. I'd also recommend that you proceed with caution when sampling offbeat teas and infusions, especially if you already have a health problem.

That said, there are some interesting recipes listed at this page, including Banana Tea, Peanut & Ginger Tea, Lichee & Plum Tea, Dry Fried Rice Tea, Shrimp Tea, Red Date Tea, White Radish Tea and Tomato Tea. Which all looks mighty interesting, whether or not they confer the marvelous health benefits that they claim to.

While we're on the subject of unusual teas, how about Jiaogulan, a "wild green tea sagebrush that grew along the steppes" of southern China. You can find out more about this one here. Once again, there are some pretty lofty claims made for the product, so do keep your wits about you as you peruse them.

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Iced Tea Recipes

After spending a bunch of years in the West I'm having a tough time readjusting to this humidity thing they've got going on here in the East. One thing that helps to ease the discomfort a bit is iced tea.

Lately I've been doing various combinations of mango, passion fruit and pineapple, using teas from Hawaii Tea Factory. I also did a mango/osmanthus, using osmanthus from Adagio. I wasn't completely blown away by this one as a hot tea, but mixing it with something else and chilling it seems to work well.

Courtesy of Emeril Live and the Food Network, here's a recipe for Cranberry Vodka Iced Tea. We've written about a bunch of tea-flavored vodkas here at TGS, most recently here.

From the Northwest Herald, comes a recipe for Passion Lemon Iced Tea.

Also in the chilled category are some bottled yerba mate drinks from Guayaki - EmpowerMint, Raspberry Revolution, and Traditional.

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Tea-Smoked Trout Recipe

Add one more to the flurry of recipes we've passed along here lately. London's Independent recently offered up a recipe for Tea-smoked Wild Trout with Crème Fraîche and Chilli Sauce.

If Tea-Smoked Duck is more your style, then hearken back to this recipe we mentioned last week.

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Emeril, Tea & More Duck

If you're looking for duck recipes that incorporate tea, make haste to the Food Network's Web site. Just yesterday we posted a recipe for tea smoked duck, as presented on an episode of BBQ with Bobby Flay. Here's one for Seared Duck Breasts with a Citrus-Tea Sauce, that first appeared on a 2001 episode of The Essence of Emeril.

Also featured in this episode - which aired again yesterday (oops) - were recipes for Green Tea Ice Cream and a concoction called Emeril's Feel-Good Tea. It's made with tea, lemon, ginger, honey and brandy or cognac. Doesn't sound like something that would float my boat, but your mileage may vary.

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Tea Smoked Duck Recipe

From the Food Network, and more specifically, from BBQ with Bobby Flay, here's a recipe for Tea Smoked Duck. If you don't like duck, then - as the great Basil Fawlty once said - you're rather stuck.

Continuing on the fowl theme, here's an entry from The Grocery List Collection that includes Nest tea, among other things. The Grocery List Collection is "the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists". The Internet, for those of you who may not have noticed, is a really peculiar place.

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More Tea Recipes

We've done a number of pieces at TGS about cooking with tea, most recently here and here.

Recently Chicago's ABC affiliate featured a number of tea recipes at their Web site. The occasion is Twinings of London's 300th anniversary and the recipes shared are said to be the favorites of Chef John Fuente, from the Culinary and Hospitality Institute of Chicago.

Among the recipes listed - Seared Romaine Lettuce with Orange Crouton, Grilled Chicken Breast with Lemon Tea Asparagus, Green Tea Shrimp and Barbecue Sauce. Also included is a capsule history of Twinings of London. Check it out here.

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More On Burmese Tea Salad

In one of several postings on tea cuisine I mentioned a tea salad that's popular in Burma, a country now known as Myanmar. Here's an article from CuisineNet about Burmese cuisine. It offers more information about this particular dish, including a recipe that substitutes ginger for tea. Probably safe to say that you could ditch the ginger and put the tea back in, though the author suggests that Burmese tea is a key component.