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Making better use of tea in cooking
First of all, to make better use of tea in cooking, it is important to use various kind of tea properly for the dish. Don't forget the method of utilizing the type and properties of tea, applying it for cooking well deliciously.

Issendashi-Chaba is the remains of a former used tea. Chop it into small pieces and mix with the coatings of boiled rice or deep-fried dishes to make it. It is used just like the blue vegetables. Depending on the dishes, the usage of it should be changed. For example, green tea (Sen Cha) or highest-quality green tea (Gyoku Ro) are used to make freshly drawn tea leaves. It is convenient to preserve it frozen until cooking.Powdered green tea is very familiar with Japanese people especially in tea ceremony. It is made of ten cha (preparing powdered tea) with using the stone mortar. You can take the whole ingredients of tea with it, and it is full of nutrition too. To apply it for various sweets and the sauce of cooking, melt it with hot water or cool water. Tea whisk (Cha Sen) is helpful to make it.


This is a new type tea which is made of green tea as powder. Without using Funmatsu Cha on the market, putting green tea into the blender for 8 seconds, you can make beautiful powder tea. As powdered green tea has the common feature with green tea, you can use it as the same usage as that of green tea.Powdered tea, sold on the market, is made of the powder which is in the middle of process of green tea or highest-quality green tea (Gyoku Ro), and sorted out from its bud point. Otherwise, bring Sen Cha into blender for 1 second, the same powdered tea is made. The way to sprinkle or mix with various dashes belongs to your idea. Let's try it.


Tea drops are made of green tea (Sen Cha) or coarse tea (Ban Cha) with hot water. It is used for washing a fish or meat (Cha Arai: tea washing), and boiling or cooking gruel and tea rice. The strength of its taste depends on your usual taste.
Paste tea is developed by the Shizuoka National Research Institute of Tea. The method is to make the steamed tea leaves into the state of paste with the grinder, and add vitamin C and the white of an egg. This is a processed tea with which you can taste the rich fragrance of tea.

How to make better use of the effects in tea cooking?
Although various outstanding effects exist in tea, it doesn't make better use of its effects without cooking tea dishes. Let's try to master the skills of cooking tea dishes which is delicious and healthy for the body.

How to cook the tea and extract its effects
The water soluble components such as Catechin, Amino acid, Vitamin C, etc., and the non water-soluble components such as Vitamin E, Carotene, and food fiber are contained in tea. Each has very excellent effects and action. Especially catechin which contained in the taste of bitterness has the effects to protect bacteria and antioxidant effects. The decline of blood cholesterol degree suppresses the attack of cancer.
Moreover, it works effectively for the prevention of toothache or bad breath. Cooking with these nutrition well, you can take in the whole nutrition.