A Pint to Cool You Down?
On a hot summer day, it's essential to keep cool and hydrated.
With so many options like iced coffee lattes, lemonade, or cordial-flavoured iced water available at numerous stores and coffee shops, it can be challenging to choose a healthy option. Many of these ready-made drinks come with a hefty price tag and contain a multitude of additives, preservatives, colourings, and other ingredients designed to keep the raw product as cheap as possible, and most importantly addictive.
If you have a favourite store-bought drink, making a healthier choice can be difficult. I know it was for me... but not anymore.
Recent events and my decision to distance myself from coffee shops have made me more determined to prepare drinks I enjoy using healthier, delicious, unprocessed raw ingredients — except tea. I use premium organic Japanese matcha green tea, hand-picked for quality.
To make a delicious matcha latte, all you need is matcha green tea powder, some nuts, water, a glass, and of course, ice.
Ingredients:
1 heaped scoop (or 1/3 of a teaspoon) matcha green tea powder.
6 cashews (or 12 hazelnuts, or 2 heaped tablespoons of oats, or 8 almonds, or 100 ml full-fat coconut, soy, or cow's milk)
500 ml water
Ice cubes
Instructions:
1. Place the matcha green tea powder in a ceramic bowl and add just enough boiled hot water (80°C) to dilute it.
2. Whisk energetically until the beverage foams at the top.
3. Pour the tea into the jug of your high-speed blender and add ice cubes, your chosen nuts or milk, and 500 ml of water.
4. Blend until smooth.
You can pass the latte through a chinois etamine or strainer, but I recommend not doing so unless your blender is not powerful enough to pulverize the nuts. If it's easier, make the nut milk separately and then add it to the recipe as indicated.
Drink immediately or pour into a stainless steel flask to enjoy at your own pace, slowly and mindfully, like I am doing right now, sitting in the garden and enjoying the little sun we have had so far this year...
Cheers!
What is your favourite summer drink?
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