Homemade Healthy Matcha Latte Recipe
Would you like to make a delicious latte with matcha, which has become quite trendy lately? We are sharing with you a recipe for a very healthy drink that is refined sugar-free and can be included in vegan and vegetarian menus if you make it with plant-based milks:
Matcha Latte. By adding powdered matcha, which has an unusual taste, to our milk and consuming it, we will have a delicious, healthy drink, especially during the cold winter months.
What is Matcha? Why Matcha?
There is a reason why matcha powder has been used in Chinese and Japanese medicine for hundreds of years. One of the most distinctive features of matcha tea, which has countless benefits, is its dark green color and unique smell, which comes from its richness in chlorophyll. Its taste is something we are not very accustomed to, but it has a structure that we can describe as very unique and characteristic.
Ingredients Required for Matcha Latte Recipe
Homemade Healthy Matcha Latte[/caption] The only tricky part of this easy recipe, made with very few ingredients, may be the part where you prepare your plant-based milk at home. We leave the choice to you here. We have listed the ingredients for you to prepare this latte with different flavors and colors. Our recipe is for two people.
Here you go:
- 2 glasses of homemade milk (We recommend fresh almond milk or oat milk)
- Boiling water
- 2 teaspoons matcha powder
- A sweetener of your choice to sweeten
You can add
grated coconut , powdered cinnamon,
ginger or
turmeric on top.
How to Make Matcha Latte?
- We boil our water.
- Meanwhile, we boil the plant-based milk of our choice on the stove while whisking.
- We add one teaspoon of matcha powder into the two glasses in which we will drink our latte.
- We add one tablespoon of boiling water per glass and whisk well.
- We add our frothed plant milk on top.
- Maybe we can add some date syrup to our milk and matcha mixture to sweeten it.
- Our Matcha Latte is ready. We can serve our drink after decorating it with organic Ceylon cinnamon powder, organic coconut grated, organic ginger or organic turmeric.
What other ingredients can be added to the Matcha Latte Recipe?
We can create more dominant differences in the taste of our latte by adding one of the powders we prefer to decorate our latte, more densely while whisking, rather than at the end.
You can obtain a variety of flavors by adding alternatives such as to your mixture.
Tips for Matcha Latte
- If you want to prepare Matcha Latte in accordance with Japanese traditions and be a little more careful, you can combine matcha powder and boiling water in a ceramic bowl, then whisk it in a zigzag pattern using a bamboo whisk special for preparing matcha tea, and then add your whipped hot milk to this mixture.
- If you ask when to drink Matcha Latte, we recommend that you drink it at any time of the day, when you are not very hungry.
