Perhaps you’ve never had matcha green tea before and are looking for a place to buy matcha powder. Or maybe you’ve had matcha tea in a coffee shop or café and want to try recreating some of the same flavours at home, and you’d like to buy matcha powder to do so. Or maybe you’re interested in what all the current media – particularly social media – buzz about matcha is truly about, and whether it’s the health-boosting superfood’ some claim it is. You’ve come to the perfect site if you’re thinking about buying matcha online for whatever purpose.

How Matcha offers some of London’s finest matcha tea and other matcha-based drinks. We’re known not only for the excellence of our matcha-based products but also for our industry-leading innovation.

Delicious matcha lattes? That is something we can do. Matcha bubble tea? That’s one of our specialties. Matcha tea with chocolate and cream is a delicious combination we are renowned for. The list might go on forever. Because we experiment with new matcha drinks all the time.

But it all starts with the best matcha powders available. You can also buy the same matcha powder from us directly online.

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What Exactly Is Matcha Powder?

People are often focused on health trends since they see them all over social media or hear a brief mention of them on the news, but they don’t fully comprehend what is being addressed. When people come into How Matcha’s Marylebone cafe for the first time, we often find that to be the case.

For hundreds of years, many people in Asia have relished matcha, a rich green tea preparation. Buddhist monks brought it to feudal Japan and used it to stay alert during extended periods of meditation. However, it dates back to the Tang Dynasty in China. It is still used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony called temae, and it is an important part of Japanese culture.

Today, matcha is popular not only among tea connoisseurs and gourmands, but also among health-conscious individuals who value its reported health benefits and low caffeine content.

Matcha is made from tea leaves that were partially shade-grown, steamed, deveined, and destemmed, and is literally translated as “powdered tea.” Matcha is a fine stone-ground green powder that is customarily made into a vegetal drink by whisking it with boiling water.

As matcha has grown in popularity in the West, the basic Matcha green tea powders we sell have been transformed into other tea beverages – see How Matcha’s menu for a list of some of the amazing beverages you can make with it – and it can also be used as an ingredient in homemade biscuits, cakes, and other baked goods, bringing the health benefits of matcha to food as well as drink.

Matcha latte

How is Matcha Grown?

It’s the manner in which matcha tea is produced and developed that sets it apart from other teas, including green teas, and allows it to provide even more health advantages. And the process is fascinating in and of itself.

The terroir, or natural environment in which matcha is cultivated, which includes soil, topography, and climate, is critical to producing high-quality matcha. While matcha is grown in a few locations throughout Japan, the best-known is Uji, on the outskirts of Kyoto to the southeast, where professional matcha farmers have mastered the skills of planting and harvesting the purest matcha for over a millennium.

The shading process begins in April, when the first buds of the season appear on the camellia sinensis plant.

Matcha-dedicated tree plantings are gradually removed from direct sunlight for 30 days using an overhead structure to slow photosynthesis. As a result, higher levels of theanine, an amino acid responsible for matcha’s mellow, sweet-savory flavor, are possible.

The darker the habitat in which matcha grows, the higher the quality of the tea. When it comes to harvesting, the greatest grades of matcha are grown in almost total darkness.

The harvest begins in early May, when the young leaves are painstakingly harvested from the tea trees, with the year’s ‘first flush’ ichibancha considered by specialists and connoisseurs to be the best of all.

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Only the plant’s youngest and greenest bits are used to brew namacha, or “raw tea.” Namacha is steamed for 15-20 seconds within 20 hours of harvesting to maintain the leaves’ inherent brilliant green color and distinct smell.

The leaves are dried after steaming, and destemming begins to separate only the best parts of the leaves, yielding the best matcha. Matcha leaves are cooled and dried with an air machine to form aracha , unlike other Japanese loose-leaf green teas, which are twisted after steaming. Tencha is manufactured from aracha that has been deveined and destemming.

As the final step in the manufacturing process, the tencha leaves are ground into a powder. The tencha is ground into matcha powder, which is drunk today using a traditional granite stone mill. This grinding procedure gives matcha () its name, which means “ground tea.”

The unique and highly appreciated cultivation and production method of matcha are what makes it so important to so many people in Japan, and now to a growing number of people in the West.

And the only matcha powder available for purchase online from How Matcha comes from this high-quality matcha growing process.

How to Make Matcha Tea at Home using Matcha Powder

Making a nice cup of matcha tea should always begin in the same way:

In a small cup or bowl, sift the matcha green tea powder. Because matcha clumps quickly, sifting it before adding water is always a good idea. Otherwise, getting the tea to distribute uniformly in the liquid will be difficult, and your matcha tea beverage will be lumpy.

Add a small amount of boiling water after that and stir it in. Circular whisking should not be utilized. Instead, aggressively whisk the powder into the water in a zigzag pattern or back and forth to equally disseminate the powder and create a frothy layer on top. It will not foam if you whisk your tea in a circular motion. And froth is a necessary part of a pleasant matcha tea experience.

To finish, pour in some more hot water or hot milk. Matcha green tea is typically made with just green tea powder and hot water, but a latte can easily be made by adding heated milk at the end. Matcha green tea is also delicious with almond milk, coconut milk, or oat milk, according to How Matcha customers. Then whisk till foamy again, add sweetener to taste, and serve!

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Matcha Green Tea

Buy Matcha Powder For Your Kitchen

While many people buy matcha powder from How Matcha to make various matcha tea drinks at home, other people also use our high-quality matcha powder in their cooking and baking (which we do, as you can see if you visit our cafe).

What are the advantages of baking using Matcha powder?

Matcha powder is a quick and easy way to infuse baked goods with the flavor and goodness of the highest quality green tea. It has an earthy flavor that compliments baked goods with vanilla, ginger, chocolate, and citrus. 

Matcha powder can also be used to lend a natural splash of green color to biscuits, cakes, icings, or glazes, eliminating the toxins found in artificial coloring agents and replacing them with healthful antioxidants.

According to a growing body of scientific evidence, matcha tea powder contains a significant amount of antioxidants due to its higher chlorophyll content. And there’s nothing like revamping a tried-and-true recipe, adding matcha powder to your dry ingredients to make your baked products stand out.

How to Use Matcha Powder in Baking

Here are a few of our favorite ways to incorporate matcha tea into your daily baking and desserts now that you know why you should use matcha powder for baking!

Pie crusts: Toss 1 spoonful of matcha tea into the flour mixture before adding the butter and water. 2 tablespoons for a double pie crust

Sift in 2 tablespoons of matcha to your flour mixture for a normal size biscuit recipe.

Cakes: For each tier of the cake, sift 1 tablespoon of matcha into the dry ingredients (2 layers=2 teaspoons).

Sift in 1-2 tablespoons of matcha to the granola mixture before adding the wet components.

Icing, Glaze, and Garnish: Sift 1 teaspoon of matcha into powdered sugar glazes for a beautiful green color. Sift a tablespoon of matcha powder over your final baked products for colour and flavour or as a simple garnish.

Are you ready to try matcha powder of the highest quality for yourself? Now is the time to purchase matcha powder from us, and start enjoying everything that matcha has to offer, at home, at work or wherever you go! 

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