Green Tea Rice

Green tea rice from the lean green bean you don t need to get too fancy when accepting a kitchen mission.

Green tea rice.

Lindsay s recipe redux is a super simple way to put tea to use in your meal plan this week. Combine rice garlic ginger and tea in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Japanese short grain rice is sweet pearly and sticky enough to pick up with your chopsticks. Genmaicha 玄米茶 brown rice tea is a japanese brown rice green tea consisting of green tea mixed with roasted popped brown rice.

Your email address will not be published. It is sometimes referred to colloquially as popcorn tea because a few grains of the rice pop during the roasting process and resemble popcorn or as people s tea as the rice served as a filler and reduced the price of the tea making it more available. Cover and simmer 20 minutes over low heat or until all the water is absorbed. Discard the green leaves.

The initial rinsing rids the rice of the powdered bran and polishing compound while the soaking plumps the grains with water to render them tender and slightly tacky. Boil the tea rice and water in a small saucepan. Meanwhile in a small saucepan over low heat stir the sugar vinegar and salt until dissolved. Fold into the cooked rice and serve.

Get a large shallow bowl put the steamed rice and add the scallions and sesame seeds on top of the rice. Look for the excellent nishiki brand of rice available in most japanese markets do not skip the rinsing and soaking process. Stir in green onions and sesame seeds and season with salt and pepper. Cover pan reduce heat to medium low and simmer 10 minutes.

Set aside for 10 minutes. Leave a reply cancel reply. Add frozen vegetables and cover pan again. Drain and filter the tea.

Pour the green tea over the rice and serve immediately.