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A little while back we posted an article that featured some great cooking ideas using Jason Winters Green Tea. There are tons of clever ways people use green tea, and we’re always looking for new ways you can include your favorite blend in a dish or drink.

Well, summer is just about here, so we wanted to share more recipes that you can include some green tea in. Enjoy!

Sir Jason Winters Ochazuke
When we first posted our Sir Jason Winters green tea recipes, Sir Raymond Winters had recently finished a PR trip to Japan. During that trip, prominent Japanese chefs made some beautiful – and delicious – looking dishes. One Japanese dish that embraces the flavor of green tea is Ochazuke, which is essentially green tea poured over rice.

To make Ochazuke, you’ll need Japanese rice crackers, steamed rice, seaweed, wasabi (if you’re bold enough), and, of course, green tea.

This dish can be created a number of ways, so there’s no exact measurement you need to follow. Just be sure to start with a bowl of rice and add enough green tea to submerge all the rice. From there, place smashed Japanese rice crackers, seaweed flakes and whatever else you want into the dish.

If you want to add fish, Ochazuke also goes incredibly well with salmon. Broil the salmon until golden brown. After, remove the skin and put it in your bowl with the other ingredients.

Sir Jason Winters Green Tea Ice Cream
The perfect summer snack! To prepare this dish you will need to use an ice cream maker.

Here’s our recipe for green tea ice cream:

• 1 ½ tablespoon of Sir Jason Winters Green Herbal Tea (remove from tea bags)
• 1 cup whole milk
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 2/3 cups white sugar (or natural sweetener)
• 2 eggs

Start by mixing the Green Herbal Tea powder with the milk. Then add the heavy cream with the green tea mix while cooking in a pot on low heat. Stir it for 5-7 minutes, until the entire mixture is heated. Strain out the green tea leaves if desired.

After, mix the sugar and eggs in a bowl. Gradually add your green tea mix to the bowl, making sure to mix everything together before adding more mix.

Put all of this back into the pot and cook it over low heat for 5 minutes or so, stirring it and making sure everything is mixed.

Remove it from the heat, let it cool to room temperature then put it in the refrigerator for 4 hours or more. After it’s cool, run it through your ice cream maker.

And there you have it – delicious Sir Jason Winters Green Tea Ice Cream!

Green Tea Drinks
If you’re living in an area that gets pretty hot in the summer, then you’ll probably want to switch away from the classic hot water steeping you often use to prepare tea.

Most iced teas you find use black tea, but there are plenty of great iced green tea recipes you can follow! Here is one of our favorites.

Prepare green tea how you normally would (steeping it in hot water). While the water is still hot, also add some honey, agave or something similar that you normally mix with your tea. Put the tea in your refrigerator to cool off, and be sure to add some ice. Once it’s cold, add mint leaves to the drink. Mix it up, pour it over more ice and enjoy!

Another green tea drink we’re enjoying right now is a mango-green tea hybrid drink, perfect for while you’re sitting outside on a sunny day.

The recipe we use is as follows:

• 2 parts iced green tea
• 4 parts mango juice
• Mint leaf on top to spruce it up

Just make the iced tea the same way as described above, but don’t include any honey or another additive. The mango juice should make this sweet enough as is!

If you have any favorite green tea recipes for the summer that didn’t make this list, feel free to share this post and add your recipe on social media!

Tea, particularly green tea, is full of health benefits. But can you have too much of a good thing?

It turns out that yes, you can. While drinking green tea is bound to give you health benefits, too much of the wonder drink can begin to have negative side effects on your body. Though these side effects are hardly serious.

It’s important to know what happens when you drink green tea.

The Benefits Of Lots Of Tea

The benefits to drinking green tea are numerous, and you can pile on the benefits by adding cups of green tea to your daily routine.

One benefit to green tea is caffeine. You might not feel the effects of caffeine from one cup, and that’s generally a good thing. A little bit of caffeine can help your metabolism work faster.

Because green tea has much less caffeine than drinks like coffee, you’ll be safe having more than one cup of tea.

Another benefit to drinking lots of green tea is hydration. When you drink tea, only a small percentage of it is actually tea – about 0.4% – while the rest is water. Most people are chronically dehydrated, so adding tea is a clever way to drink water while getting great flavor and health benefits.

The Side Effects Of Lots Of Tea

Too much tea can cause slight problems; fortunately, they are hardly serious.

One common issue with drinking too much tea is the caffeine intake. Caffeine is good in small doses, but too much caffeine can change the way your body works. You can start to become addicted to caffeine, and you stop naturally producing energy.

You’d have to drink a lot of tea for this to happen, and unless you’re drinking more than 8 cups a day, this isn’t something you should be worried about.

Another thing to consider about tea is what you add to it. Green tea on its own is relatively harmless, but other herbs added to the mix can change that.

Your body will react differently to some herbs, so it’s best to avoid large doses of anything you don’t understand well. Sugar and honey help tea taste even better, but they can add calories and start to counteract against the weight loss properties of green tea, so best to use them sparingly or not at all.

Aside from these, there really aren’t many problems to be concerned about.

How Much Tea Should You Drink?

If you want to get the maximum benefits of green tea, you’ll want to drink up to 6 cups a day. That might seem like a lot to some people, but you’d be surprised how quickly you get hooked on the flavor!

The 6-cup rule works well when you drink high-quality green tea like Sir Jason Winters. There really isn’t a huge drawback to drinking too much tea, but you can get plenty of benefits from adding a few cups to your daily routine!

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Recently, prominent Japanese chefs prepared some incredible dishes using Sir Jason Winters tea. Not only did the food look good, but the flavor was incredible!

While cooking with tea might seem like an unusual idea, it is actually a growing trend. With the right recipes, you can create delicious, healthy dishes that feature the flavors of tea! 

Green Tea Cooking Trends
Before you even begin cooking, think about the flavor of tea – For instance, green tea. It’s mild, but there’s enough flavor that it can perfectly complement the other ingredients. Green tea drinkers know this, so you can start to think about what types of dishes can benefit from an herbal blend or green tea infusions.

Perhaps the most common way to cook with green tea is by grinding up loose leaves, or using the pre-ground tea leaves found in a teabag, and combining them with other herbs. There’s no real set amount on how much to add to your meals – but just to be safe, you might want to stick to about ½ tablespoon. If you want more flavor you can always add more.

If you’re looking to create a healthy dish that features tea, mix your ground tea with herbs like basil, mint, chives, and cilantro. Combine this with white or brown rice to create the perfect side dish for any main course.

This type of blend can be added to other foods, too. Whenever you sprinkle herbs over your meal, you can always add in Green, Oolong or Herbal Tea.

When in doubt, just keep in mind that you want to use a tea that would pair well with the meal.

Green Tea Butter And Oil
An easy way to add green tea to most dishes is by steeping your favorite blend in melted butter. The butter will absorb all the flavors of the tea, and that flavor will be transferred to whatever you’re preparing. From here, you can apply the butter to just about any recipe – cookies, cake, bread and more, all with the added flavors of tea.

Here’s a recipe for green tea butter:

• 1 bag of Sir Jason Winters Tea bags
• 1 ½ tablespoons of warm, melted butter
• Once blended, put it back in the refrigerator to cool off and create a green tea butter spread

You can easily do the same thing with oils that you use for cooking. One of our favorites is using green tea oil to prepare the perfect breakfast omelet!

Our recipe for green tea oil:

• 1-2 bags of Sir Jason Winters Tea bags
• 1 cup of oil (whichever type you prefer to cook with)
• Let it steep in warm (not hot) oil for up to 10 minutes

Specialized Green Tea Drinks
Green tea infusions don’t stop with food! There are plenty of other drinks you can prepare that make use of your tea.

If you make healthy smoothies, green tea is the perfect addition. Just put some in the blender with your other favorite ingredients.

Green tea is also great for steeping into cocktails. It’s best to use bitter tasting alcohols like gin since the tea acts as a perfect complement, but you can always add it to your favorite cocktail. For maximum effect, you’ll want to steep the tea leaves in the cocktail for at least a few days. It takes some time, but the flavor is definitely worth it!

Lastly, it isn’t exactly a drink, but green tea soups can be a tasty spin on another soup you already enjoy. Just take any vegetable broth that you would normally use and add ground green tea to the mixture.

There really are endless ways that you can add green tea to foods and drinks. As green tea continues to grow in popularity around the world, expect to see more green tea recipes and meals popping up around you!

Stay tuned for future blogs with even more tasty recipes and ideas for using Sir Jason Winters tea!

These dishes below were made using Jason Winters Tea.

Sir Raymond Winter’s 2016 PR Tour of Japan was a huge success, where he was the keynote speaker at the annual Jason Winters Tea Party held by our sole Japan agent, EOS Corp.

We invite you to view his speech below, presented in it’s entirety in 4 parts. 

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4