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Green Tea Ice Cream (serves 4-6)XXXXXXX

Ingredients

* 1 cup full cream milk
* 2 tblsp Japanese Green Tea leaves or 8 Green Tea teabags
* 1/4 cup caster sugar
* 4 egg yolks
* 1 cup cream
* 1 tsp freshly squeezed lime juice
* 1-2 drops green food colouring

Method

Firstly, place the milk and sugar in a saucepan and bring ingredients to near boiling point. Stir continuously while adding the green tea leaves to the saucepan.

Allow the mixture to cool. preferably overnight in a refrigerator, but for a minimum of 2-3 hours at least. This cooling off period allows the green tea to impart flavour into the mixture.

Once cooled, remove from refrigerator and strain through a very fine sieve to separate the leaves.

Meanwhile, prepare the four egg yolks by whisking them in a separate bowl. Re-heat the flavored milk and pour over the freshly whisked yolks. Gently mix the ingredients together before returning the mix to the saucepan. Once again, stir well to prevent the mixture from boiling.

With gentle heating the ingredients will form a smooth custard. Once the custard coats the back of the spoon, remove the saucepan from the heat and allow to cool.

Once cooled, combine the cream, lime-juice and food colouring to the mixture and stir well. Transfer the mix to an ice cream maker and follow the manufacturer’s instructions on churning.

If you do not have an ice cream maker, then freeze the mixture in a small plastic container until it is slightly firm, remove and whisk well.

Replace the mix back into the freezer and repeat the whisking process after 3 hours. Return the mix to the freezer for the final time, and freeze until ready to serve.
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Green Tea Doughnuts

Ingredients

* 7/8 c. cake mix or pancake mix
* 1 egg
* 2 tbs. milk
* 1 tbs. powdered green tea
* Sugar or cinnamon sugar
* Oil

Method

Begin by heating the oil in a deep fat fryer to about 375 degrees. While the oil heats, melt some butter in a seperate saucepan.

Meanwhile, make a green tea mixture by adding the tea powder into a cup of water.

Follow the packet guidelines for the pancake mix, then add the egg, milk, butter and green tea and whisk until smooth.

Roll out the dough with a rolling pin until about 1/4 inch thick. Cut out small circles and roll into balls. Fry the dough balls for 2-3 minutes in the deep fat fryer, or until golden brown.

Remove excess oil by draining on paper towels, then sprinkle with ordinary sugar or cinnamon.
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here is a recipe it doesn’t use extract but it uses green tea bags

ingredients

2/3 cup water

4 green tea bags

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup half and half

1 cup heavy whipping cream

How to make

Step 1. In a medium sized pot, heat 2/3 cups water to boiling. Add the green tea bags, remove the pot from the heat, and let them steep for 5-7 minutes.

Step 2. Remove the tea bags, squeezing them against the side of the pot with a spoon to get all the liquid out.

Step 3. Simmer over medium low heat for 10-15 minutes, or until the liquid is reduced by half.

Step 4. Remove from heat, and add the half-and-half and the sugar. Allow the mixture to chill for at least 1 hour in the fridge.

Step 5. Beat the whipping cream until soft peaks form, and then fold in the green tea and half and half mixture.

Step 6. Freeze in an ice cream maker, and then transfer to a freezer container.