Recipe #37: matcha latté

 The best matcha latté I’ve ever had (and I’ve had a lot of matcha lattés!) was from Lady Baker’s tea stand at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market made by the fabulous former tea barista, Willow. Willow kindly shared her secret ingredient with me and now I will share it with you.

Sweetened condensed milk.

Now hush! 🤫 

Ingredients: 


In honour of this shared secret ingredient and out of loyalty to Lady Baker’s Tea, I continue to buy their matcha, but you can buy matcha almost anywhere these days.

Directions:

Heat some fresh filtered water but not to a boil. I have a kettle that can be programmed for specific temperatures and I’m using my “green tea” setting here:


Alternatively, you can just boil your water and then let it cool down a bit. You don’t want to shock the delicate matcha with boiling hot water!

Next, if you happen to have a device for stovetop steam foaming milk, get ‘er going:


If you don’t have this milk steamer device, there are other ways and means to foam milk, and I invite you to explore those.

Measure about a half teaspoon of matcha in your cup or bowl:


And when your water is hot (or cool) enough, add it slowly to the cup and vigorously whisk the hot water and matcha powder:


There are special wooden matcha whisks for this purpose but we rubbishy types can use a small dollar store whisk instead and that’s fine!

When the milk steamer foamer thingy is ready, whistling with built up steam:


get a small milk receptacle and pour in the milk and the special ingredient: the sweetened condensed milk! I can’t tell you exactly how much of each, but it’s probably about a third of a cup of milk and a couple of tablespoons of condensed milk:



Then start steaming and foaming, and there are plenty of YouTube videos that can instruct you how to do this:



Then pour your perfectly frothy milk into your matcha cup:



As you can see, latté art is well beyond the scope of this blog. But who cares!


Enjoy your sweet and grassy and foamy concoction on the deck with a big book and the last warm days of the season.

Thanks, Lady Baker! Thanks, Willow! 

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