OK, here’s a recipe for Green Tea scones with Carrot Jam. It’s on the healthier side, and each scone has around 200kcal. Think of all the antioxidant qualities of the green tea :)
Ingredients for 12 scones:
For the scones:
5g green tea
200g flour
25g sugar
7g baking powder
1 large egg (60g)
75g milk
50g butter
salt to taste
For the carrot jam:
100g carrots
150ml [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Healthy Green Tea Scones with Carrot Jam
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged bread, carrot, diet, food, Green Tea, health, healthy, jam, Japan, Japanese food, scone, snacks, yoghurt on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“SALTY VANILLA” Toppo Sticks?!
Posted in Weird flavors of familiar things, tagged breadsticks, food, Japan, japan food, japan sweets, salt, sticks, sweets, Toppo, Vanilla on May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
OK, the moment I saw this, I knew I had to try it no matter how clashing the combination of vanilla and salt sounds. It’s like having french fries with vanilla ice-cream, right?
( I know, I know, I ate that too back in the day )
Anyway, long story short, it tastes good! Now, unfortunately, that’s [...]
Green Tea (Matcha) Chocolate
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged candy, chocolate, food, Green Tea, green tea chocolate, Japan, japan food, Japanese Recipes, Japanese sweets, macha, matcha, recipes, sweets, truffles, white chocolate on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you might already know, Green Tea chocolate is usually just a mix of white chocolate and matcha powder. Here’s how to make a kind of green tea truffles:
Ingredients: (for a 12cm mold)
100g white chocolate
10g butter
60ml cream
1/2 teaspoon rhum
Macha powder
Chop the butter into small pieces and keep at room temperature. Chop the white chocolate into [...]
“Brown sugar” flavoured KitKat in Japan?
Posted in Weird flavors of familiar things, tagged brown sugar, chocolate, food, Japan, japan sweets, KitKat, sugar, sweets on May 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yet another new exciting flavour of KitKat in Japan!
OK, now, brown sugar isn’t one of those flavours that would get you drooling just by thinking of it. I mean, it’s not Choc Banana, Green Tea White Choc or anything like that. It’s brown SUGAR!!! As if anyoen get excited by that idea…
So, with very (very) [...]
Haagen Dazs new flavors in Japan: Mille-feuille!
Posted in Weird flavors of familiar things, tagged flavor, food, haagen dazs, ice cream, Japan, millefeuille, patisserie, sweets on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The ads for the new “collection” of Haagen Dazs ice-cream have covered more or less 96.4% of the available advertising space in Japan.
You simply cannot live your life here ignoring their existence.
The collection consists of three new flavors derived from famous cakes: Millefeuille, Tiramisu and Mont Blanc.
So, first up on the pedestal is the… Mille-feuille [...]
大学芋 (Daigaku Imo): Japanese Caramelized Sweet Potatoes
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged asian, daigaku imo, Japanese food, potatoes, sweet potatoe on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
大学芋 is made by coating deep-fried sweet potatoes with caramelised syrup. 大学(daigaku) is the Japanese for “university”, and 芋(imo) means sweet potato. The name 大学芋 derives from the fact that it was popular in college towns during the Taisho (1912-1926) and Showa (1926-1989) period.
Ingredients:
300g sweet potato (10.5 oz)
Oil for deep-frying
1/2 cup sugar (60g OR 2 oz)
1.5 [...]
Green Tea (Matcha) Sponge Cake
Posted in Japanese Recipes, tagged Green Tea, green tea cake, japanese cake, Japanese food, Japanese sweets, macha, matcha, okashi, sponge cake on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ingredients:
90g white chocolate
80g butter
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites
40g x 2 sugar
40g flour
20g corn starch
7g green tea powder (macha)
Preheat the oven to 150C (300F).
1. Chop the white chocolate and butter to small pieces, put in a bowl and immerse into hot water to melt.
2. Mix together the 40g flour, 20g corn starch [...]
