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Menu of dinner often gets stereotyped because it is repeated every day.
Then, it is recommended that you should cook with a little of time and labor to create new flavor of yourself.
Applying freshly pickled tea leaves to cook aemono (foods dressed with sauce), ohitashi (souced greens), cha meshi (rice boiled in tea with salt), sweets. Using the remains of tea, you can cook furikake (powdered food to be sprinkled over rice) or tsukudani (food boiled down with soy sauce). There is a lot of combination in using tea leaves besides these lists. Green tea cooking will change the atmosphere at the table into enjoyable and make the cooking tasty.
This dish uses preparing powdered tea (ten cha) instead of paceli, it can soften the oily taste which has a slight bitterness. You can also use powdered tea remained on the cup unless ten cha.
various bowls on the cupboard should be used to dish up in place of standard one.
I suppose that you can do without bringing stereotyped cooking style if you try to cook such a novel way.



Ingredients (4 servings)
·300g (10 1/2 oz) boiled octopus
·8 sheets shiitake mushrooms
·1/4 piece onion
·1 piece garlic
·2 eshallot
·70g (2 1/2 oz) butter
·2 tablespoons preparing powdered tea
·a pinch of salt and pepper

To prepare all the ingredients:
Cut boiled octopus and shiitake mushrooms into bite-sized pieces.
To prepare ingredients of butter with tea flavor:
Prepare putter and keep it at room temparature.
Chop cnicn, garic, eshallot into fine pieces.
Soak preparing powdered tea into lukewarm water, and make it soft.
To make butter with tea flavor:
Add (2) to smoothed butter, stir well, and season with a pinch of salt, pepper.
To bake in oven at 400ºC:
Add (1) to your favorite small bowl, spread a plenty of butter with tea taste. Bake in oven for about 10 minutes at 400ºC.
After spreading butter, serve during hot.