Aside from a source of caffeine (sans the jitters), green tea has powerful mind, body, and beauty benefits like fighting inflammation and protecting your body against aging (thanks to vitamins B and E, it boosts collagen production), and it has shown to boost your metabolism to burn fat as energy quicker. Need more convincing to add the green powder into your daily routine? Below is how we make our matcha tea latte at home.
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WHAT IS MATCHA?
Matcha powder is made up of ground-up green tea leaves. Instead of brewing a cup of tea with tea leaves, this is ground-up leaves that dissolve into warm/hot water. If you ever have the privilege of visiting Kyoto, Japan, be sure to go to a tea house and be sure to buy some beautiful matcha green tea powder for the road. The packets make great gifts and can be used to make this warm matcha latte or an iced matcha latte!
Though there’s not much that goes into making matcha tea, we have perfected how each of us takes our latte. It’s a staple at our home and in our BeautyLeeBar editorial meetings. The first time we had it, we immediately asked for the recipe and exact matcha and syrup. The almond milk and organic maple syrup make it slightly sweet (not too sweet though), and we serve them in these mugs—it’s such a treat, and now we are hooked on whipping one up every morning.
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Matcha Latte
RECIPE TYPE: Beverage SERVING SIZE: 2 PREP TIME: 5 min. TOTAL TIME: 5 min.
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 teaspoon matcha 2 cups of almond milk 1/4 cup organic maple syrup*lately been cutting this in half.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Boil milk. 2. Melt the matcha with a little boiling water. 3. Add the matcha and the syrup in the milk and beat very well. 4. Serve in our favorite double-wall mug.
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Matcha Green Tea Latte 👉🏾 A Much Healthier Version & It Taste Sooooo Good 🤤 Matcha Mixture • 2 Tbsp Pure Matcha Powder NO Added Sugar Or Ingredients • 3 Tbsp Homemade Vanilla Syrup • 1/4 Cup Hot Water *taste for sweetness… Vanilla Syrup • 1 Cup Sugar • 1 Cup Water • Extra Splash Of Vanilla Sweet Cold Foam • 2 Part Heavy Cream • 1 Part Unsweetened Oat Milk • 1 Tsp Homemade Vanilla Syrup *taste for sweetness I Never Measure The Milk But More Milk = Less Match Flavor. Start With 1 Cup & Let Some Spill Ove 😅😘 #matcha#matchagreentea#matchagreentealatte#icedmatchalatte#icedmatchagreentealatte#homemadematchalatte#masonjar#blackgirl
Summer is here, and that means we’re transforming our cozy hot matcha lattes into all of our favorite iced elixirs.
If you’ve been here for more than 0.0001 seconds, you know we’re obsessed with matcha here at BeautyLeeBar.
This potent flower can be steeped into a tea or ground into a powder for multiple uses—think elixirs (similar to matcha in the way it’s mixed, but sans the caffeine), baking, DIY skincare, and more. It turns everything into a gorgeous, deep, rich shade of blue, which is so novel because rarely are foods of this hue found in nature!
Blue butterfly pea flower contains lots of antioxidants, soothing compounds, and anti-inflammatory effects with a mildly earthy, almost sweet flavor. Overall, it’s a match made in heaven—get it?
Get the recipe for this fabulous, blue-green swirl iced matcha latte below:
1. Fill a glass with ice. 2. In a shallow bowl, mix a serving of matcha powder with hot water, whisking until fully incorporated. 3. Add your honey at this time if desired. 4. In another shallow bowl, mix the milk with the butterfly pea powder until fully incorporated. 5. Pour the milk and butterfly pea powder mixture over the ice, and top with a little more milk. 6. Top it all off with the brewed matcha tea, letting the green trickle into the bright blue. 7. Pop in your straw and stir—or don’t! It’s beautiful swirled together or enjoyed while leaving the colors to mingle on their own.
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day 01 of 15 – MERMAID MATCHA ingredients: favorite milk (i used almond) ceremonial grade matcha butterfly pea powder optional: sweetener and/or vanilla syrup directions: 1. place 1/2 tsp matcha powder in a matcha sifter and remove any clumps. add water and whisk. 2. mix 1/4-1/2 tsp butterfly pea powder with almond milk. whisk. 3. pour ice in a glass. add pea powder milk. add a bit of milk, then top off with matcha. 4. add in your favorite sweetener and/or vanilla syrup. #health#matcha#matchalatte
Directions Sift 1 tsp of matcha add 2 oz of warm water whisk Sift 1 tsp of blue spirulina add 2oz of warm water whisk Pour ice blue spirulina plant milk & matcha Enjoy 😋 Tip If adding sweetener add to matcha while whisking so it melts I used oat milk in my recipe #matchalatte#latteart#mermaidmatcha
There’s nothing more satisfying than finding something completely awesome for your skin that costs next to nothing. It’s even better when you know that incredibly gorgeous celebs like Jessica Alba, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah (and the A-list list goes on!) credit their stunning figures and glowing skin to the same thing. Jessica Alba uses it in a smoothie to boost energy levels, Jennifer Aniston relies on it to keep fit and trim, and Lady Gaga swears by it for reducing her stress levels – we all know what stress does to our skin! The genius ingredient is green tea; its impressive qualities include the power to lower your sebum levels and fight against acne, reduce sun damage, flatten puffy eyes, and even diminish wrinkles. It’s literally the answer to all our prayers – for our skin and our bodies!
The magical ingredient comes from the Camellia sinensis leaves that originate in China. Green tea leaves have extremely high-levels of polyphenols, aka micronutrients that come from plants, which are packed with antioxidants that protect against skin-damaging free-radicals, infections, toxins, and even some cancers. Not only is green tea super inexpensive, but you can use it topically and internally for MAJOR health benefits – even lowering bad cholesterol and detoxing your body. Put the kettle on now; guarantee you’ll be wanting a brew…
The difference between green tea and matcha green tea: Green tea is referred to as your standard tea bag filled with dry leaves, and it needs to be brewed for a couple of minutes to release the goodness. Once brewed you can discard the leaves and drink the tea, or you can use the brewed leaves to make a mask. Matcha is green tea leaves that have been dried and finely ground, which you ingest completely, making matcha a much more intense dose of goodness. Matcha contains 137 times more EGCGs (powerful antioxidants, up to 50 times stronger than vitamin C and E) than green tea does, so you would need to drink around 10 cups of green tea to get the same benefits that you would from one cup of matcha green tea. Look out for organic matcha tea like this one.
Find Your Zen: Believe it or not, having a green tea brew will actually chill you out. The tea lowers cortisol levels (stress hormones) and contains an amino acid called L-Theanine that gives a calming effect and helps your brain to focus.
Fight against wrinkles: Free-radicals attack our skin and breakdown skin cells to deplete skin’s elasticity, causing sagging and wrinkles – they’re our ultimate nemesis! Fortunately, the high-levels of antioxidants (the best kind: catechins and polyphenols) in green tea help our skin cells to fight against the damage done by free radicals. They can both slow down the signs of aging and contribute to reverse skin damage.
Combat acne: Drinking green tea works in numerous ways to combat acne: your skin produces less sebum, your inflammation levels are reduced (that’s what causes pimples to get all red and angry), and your immune system is bolstered. The aforementioned EGCG is also a potent regulator of your hormones, in particular, male hormones, which cause your glands to produce excess sebum. Combined with its anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties, it makes a fierce face mask. Combine a tablespoon of matcha tea with a tablespoon of honey, or matcha tea with yogurt to balance and soothe your skin.
Reduce sun damage: Green tea can’t block UV rays like sunscreen can, but instead, it fights damaging free-radicals and reduces inflammation that the sun causes – it can even destroy cancerous skin-cells. To get the full benefits you can drink green tea and use it as a toner in the morning: dip a cotton pad in a cup of cooled green tea and wipe it across your face.
Boost energy levels and shed pounds: There’s a reason green tea is favored in Hollywood and among models, it’s been clinically proven to boost your metabolism and increase your bodies ability to burn fat. It’s caffeine content – about a quarter the amount of coffee’s – increases your energy and concentration levels, which can improve physical performance and mobilize fatty acids to be used for energy. A matcha smoothie makes the perfect pre-workout or morning wake-up replacement for your cup of coffee. Make a smoothie with one banana, one spoon of matcha green tea powder, ice, almond milk or coconut water (enough to cover all your ingredients in a blender), one tablespoon of almond or peanut butter, and a sprinkling of granola, you can even add a date or honey as a natural sweetener.
Deflate puffy eyes: Green tea bags make the perfect under eye treatment: the caffeine shrinks blood vessels, while the tannins constrict capillaries. Brew two tea bags for a couple of minutes, remove and place in the fridge until chilled (around 30 minutes – they should be cold but not dry) place the tea bags under your eyes and chill out for half an hour.
Even just drinking a green tea every day will do your body good, and it’s another alternative to help youreach your daily water target. It’s insanely good when you use it topically too, so play around with different recipes and find what works for you. There’s also an insane amount of products starring green tea, in case DIY isn’t your thing, check them out at ToGoSpa here.
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