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This
dish uses the grilled chicken with
tea leaves. Roast this chicken again
with tea leaves and serve.
The cookery is originally derived
from the usage of cha kou ro
(fireplace smoked with aroma of
tea). It warms the flesh of meat
and remove the bloody smell of chicken.
The aroma of smoked tea leaves makes
the taste so rich. Both kukicha
(a portion of green tea leaves)
and the old tea leaves can also
be used to cook this dish. In spring,
it is recommended to add tea bread
with the color of fresh green grass. |
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| Ingredients
(4 servings) |
| · | 2
chicken legs |
| · | 1
tablespoon salt |
| · | 1
teaspoon powdered tea |
| · | 1
tablespoon Japanese rice wine (sake) |
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| Tea
bread
| · | 2
cups hard-wheat flour |
| · | 2
cups soft-wheat flour |
| · | 1
teaspoon salt |
| · | 2
teaspoons baking powder |
| · | 1
tablespoon yeast |
| · | 3
tablespoons sugar |
| · | 1
tablespoon matcha (powdered green
tea) |
| · | about
1 1/3 cup lukewarm water |
| · | 2
tablespoons butter |
| · |
sesame seeds oil (optional) |
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| · | salad
greens(optional) |
| · | green
tea leaves | |
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 | To
grill chicken leg moderately(be
eighty percent completed):
Rub chicken in a pinch of salt
and let stand for a while. Grill
sufficiently and bake both sides
in eighty percentage completed. |
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grill chicken with green tea taste:
Sprinkle sake and also powdered
tea over it. Grill more, when the
aroma comes up, cut into bite-sized
pieces. | |
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To
make green tea bread:
Combine salt, baking powder, yeast,
sugar and matcha with the sprinkled
powder.
Pour lukewarm water
gradually, blend and stir. When
mixed, add butter and stir well.
Ferment at warm place, when expanded,
pull the gas out. Cut it separately,
make 50g (1 3/4 oz) piece and spread
in oval gold coin (koban).
Brush over with sesame seed oil
thinly, and fold it up. After fermented
sharply, steam for about 12 minutes
in the steamer.
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To
roast the green tea leaves:
Bring the tea leaves into the pottery,
roast swiftly at low tempareture.
Place the grill on it.
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To
smoke chicken with the aroma of
green tea:
Place chicken with green tea taste
on the grill of (4) and smoke.
Put it between a salad and tea bread
to serve. | |
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