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Using roasted tea to make consommé soup, a combination of these two foods surprisingly protects the smell particular to consommé. Moreover the soup is cooked to add the fresh aroma. According to the oily taste peculiar to western cuisine, this lightly seasoned taste will help to support the rest of the dishes. It is also suitable to serve with Japanese cuisine. The aged people may be pleased to taste it. It is often said that "People have soup at ones last". If you add green tea to clear soup or miso soup, it is possible to cook various foods with green tea. We cook western soup skillfully to match the taste of Japanese. It is important for this dish to add roasted tea and tea leaves. If the buds are young, tea leaves are soft and tasty. Don't forget to stick tea leaves on quenelle tightly without peeling in the water. To watch green color on the surface of clear soup is also the taste of green tea.



Ingredients (4 servings)
Green quenelle
· 200g (7 oz) white flesh fishes
(sea bream or olive flounder)
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
· 1 white of egg
· 1/3 cup whipped cream
· cornstarch (optional)
·tea leaves (optional)
Commsomé soup
·5 cups consommé soup
·carrot
·onion
·2 tablespoons roasted tea
·rice-flour crackers

To make the batter of green quenelle:
Chop cooled white flesh of fish into small pieces, grind with mortar or food cutter. After grinding salt and the white in egg, knead until sticky. Add whipped cream gradually, make it smooth. Add cornstarch and stir.
To form quenelle:
Form the batter of (1) on tablespoon, put tea leaves with a pinch of powder on the back side.
To boil quenelle:
Boil quenelle of (2) in the hot water. When boiling, remove from water.
To pour roasted tea into vegetable consommé:
Add onions, sliced carrots, packed roasted tea in tea-bag, boil until a quantity of soup reach to 4 cups. Give off the aroma of consommé, filter soup to season.
To dish up all the ingredients:
Float leaf of quenelle upon aromatic consommé soup, and sprinkle rice crackers.