Banana Rolls with Almond Black Tea Recipe

Try these lovely banana rolls as a snack or for afternoon tea sessions.

This recipe makes banana rolls that are just sweet enough with the help of raw sugar, jam and sweet tea.

INGREDIENTS:
30x30cm sheet of ready made puff pastry
1 ripe banana
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1 Tbsp raw sugar or brown sugar
2 Tbsp peach jam

Fried Bread With Tea -- Oolong Koeksister Recipe

Sweet deep-fried bread balanced with oolong tea to help your digestion. Try this very easy tea recipe.

Use only loose leaf, to ensure freshness.

INGREDIENTS:

1 lb flour

1 tsp baking powder (or instant yeast)

pinch of salt

2 oz butter

2 eggs

1/8 pint milk

1 tsp Formosa Green Jade Oolong, ground as fine as possible

oil for deep frying

treacle or syrup for dipping

desicated coconut for topping *optional

DIRECTIONS:

Sift flour, baking powder (or yeast) and salt by using a seive then add butter.

No cook easy peasy Matcha Tiramisu

Matcha is quite possibly the easiest tea to cook with. Because its fine flour like texture, you can drop a little spoonful of it into just about any drink or food to add the green tea touch!

I am not sure if I ever had Matcha Tiramisu, but my liking of Tiramisu makes me think this could be quite nice. Perhaps a more healthy version of Tiramisu ;)

I want to keep it simple, as my helper is only near 3 year old. Fortunately I found the Happy Home Baking blog with a wonderfully simply, no cooking recipe.

See our Matcha Tiramisu recipe

Filling:
250g mascarpone cheese
2 tablespoons icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons matcha* powder
200 ml non-dairy whipping cream

Matcha "Bath":
1 tablespoon matcha* powder

1/2 cup (125ml) boiling water

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon Grand Marnier

about 24 sponge fingers (savoiardi)
extra matcha* powder for dusting


Matcha is a green tea powder from Japan. For Matcha afficionado, there are 2 grades - food grade, which is often more like a powdered sencha, and a tea ceremony grade, which is made from the same premium tea leaves as gyokuro, called Tencha.

For my own learning, I have tried a lot of matcha lately. The very common Matcha sold in little green can from Ujinotsuyu is unfortunately sand like when compared to any half decent matcha (more of this on another blog post later).

So go and get some decent matcha, food grade is good enough for food and it is pretty expensive already. A little goes a long way, and you can make, besides this too-easy-too-evil Matcha Tiramisu, you can also try Matcha Latte, Matcha pancake and of course Matcha icecream :)