How do you turn a bucket of plain old vanilla ice cream into Matcha (green tea) ice cream without having to splurge US$3 per scoop at Japanese restaurants?
Easy.
Very easy!
I learned this trick recently and thought I would share it with you, especially now when it’s summer and still sizzling hot outside.
You could always use a tub of ice cream, in green tea or Matcha flavor. With Labor Day coming up soon, this quick and easy recipe will come in handy for you.
Matcha is a prized powdered form of green tea used particularly in the Japanese tea ceremony.
Matcha has gained popularity and is now used in many recipes such as matcha almond cookies, matcha (green tea) pound cake, noodles, drinks, and all sorts of desserts.
Try this quick and easy Matcha (green tea) ice cream recipe and you will thank me for it.
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Matcha (Green Tea) Ice Cream Recipe
Easiest Matcha (green tea) ice cream recipe that takes only 2 ingredients and you don't have to pay $3 per scoop.
Ingredients
- 1 tub vanilla ice cream of your choice
- Matcha or green tea powder to taste
Directions
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1Leave the ice cream out for 30 minutes to thaw or until they turn slightly soft. Add in a few tablespoons of matcha (green tea) powder to get to the desired taste you want.
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2Stir and blend well with the ice cream. The ice cream should turn light green in color and tastes exotic with a slight tint of bitter flavor from the matcha.
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3Freeze the ice cream and serve cold when ready.
Matcha ice cream
It’s a wonderful recipe, Thanks for sharing!
Veronica
Hey There,
Thanks for sharing this amazing recipe of easy of ice-cream. looks delicious that I can’t wait to try it.
Anne
Thanks for share another amazing recipe!
Julia
Thank you , I love u!! Can’t wait to try it now!
mai has
genius!will do that…hihih…save my money to buy matcha ice cream from some fancy ice cream parlour…:-)
Arthur in the Garden!
Yummy!
lisa
Thanks going to make this now…
Farah @ The Cooking Jar
I always wondered how it was made. Thanks for letting us know!
quyen
wow…that’s so easy and a no brainer! Thanks so much. What about making red bean ice cream. Do you perhaps have a trick for that?…:)
Stacey Rycroft
Today, scientific research in both Asia and the west is providing hard evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking green tea. For example, in 1994 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published the results of an epidemiological study indicating that drinking green tea reduced the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by nearly sixty percent.’,:^
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Sharon
Your recipe gave me the idea for durian ice-cream. So easy to impress people with! =D
bbbb
great but you are way overcharging for that powder
FunCheongMaster
I tried with your recipe last weekend. My Matcha icecream was a bit frosted. I left my vanila ice cream out for 15min because M’sia weather is quite hot and the ice cream was easy to melt. Any advice for that?
youth ministries
Amazing! I can not believe making green tea ice cream is this easy! I am gonna try this at home.
Audrey
Hi,
I think this is an excellent idea because I just got some matcha from Narita’s airport. I have one slight concern. Will the melted ice cream turn harder than its original texture after the melting and reharderning process?
Mark by Chocolate
Very nice. You might consider making your own ice cream and using a great green tea, snow needles, or even an oolong. That’s very easy too.
Ellie @ Kitchen Wench
Oooh, what a nice and easy idea! I’m always a fan of something that makes my kitchen work easier ;)
Sandy @ Boston
the green tea ice cream looks delicious!!!!
Marc @ NoRecipes
And here I’ve been making my own custard and using the ice cream maker. That’s a brilliant idea!
Piggy
haha! that’s an easy way to make matcha ice cream w/o splurging on an ice-cream maker too!
New Kid on the Blog
This is the express way of making one Matcha Ice Cream, huh? Good to have it right here with 34 degree C in Penang!!!
mr.sound and mrs.sound
I don’t how would this taste like. I love green tea as a beverage but as a desert. hhmmmm… never tried it. Good job on the experiment.
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Aunt LoLo
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babe_kl
gee dats really easy. btw, do you have recipe for tee nya kuih?
mycookinghut
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Zen Chef
haha.. That should be named the quickest dessert ever. I saw this morning a matcha/white chocolate ice cream made by Ciao Bella. Interesting isn’t it? :-)
chefectomy
Hey – Thanks for leaving the sweet comment on my site.. :)
The easy Matcha ice cream is such a clever idea, you are inspiring me to try other things using this method…
ChichaJo
Oh you are my friend! You are really my friend! I don’t have an ice cream maker and have always looked on wistfully as people have churned out sophisticated ice creams like this…no more! I have matcha and that is enough :) Yay!!! Thank you! :)
Claude-Olivier
it looks great ! I will try once with matcha even i like it but not that much! Bravo
mycookinghut
Fantastic! Definitely a good way to turn the plain vanilla ice-cream to something more interesting!
Dhanggit
just in time for the heat of the summer!! i love love this flavor!! if my hand could only reach out! delicious!
tigerfish
AHHHH….Clever!
30 minutes? I think the ice-cream will melt in less than 5minutes here! But that is good – that means I can have the “re-engineered” ice-cream sooner! LOL!
It’s really a neat trick. Thks!
Jude
Cheater! I guess if the matcha ice cream craving hits, you just have to :)
Manggy
Hah! Nice “cheat,” Bee! Excellent photos too!
Kevin
That matcha ice cream looks really good!
Franco
And here I am doing Green Tea Ice Cream the old fashion way. Slaving away making a custard and churning away. LOL I love Green Tea Ice! Thanks Bee for making my life less stressful. :)
Annie & Nate
How about just sprinkling matcha powder on top of the vanilla ice cream. I do that all the time with Milo. You don’t have to wait for the ice cream to melt and reharden! ;-)
matt wright
Talk about an awesome cheat :D I love this idea. Great photos too.
MyF
Yummy, it is hot here and i want ice cream! But i have been hibernating for the past week with bad coughs… :-(
PenangTuaPui
what a great idea… hmm.. Fei Fei will definitely like this. He is ice-cream lover and green tea ice cream is my favourite.
I think I can try and make this for my coming house warming. Give them a surprise…
Huat Koay from PenangTuaPui
Lydia (The Perfect Pantry)
Matcha is on my list of foods I’m trying to incorporate into my diet more this year. Maybe if I have it in ice cream, it won’t feel like a homework assignment!
gay
I make my own matcha ice cream like this, too. It’s my favorite!
Toki
Wow, that’s soo easy, it’s scary.
What a great idea! I had to give up flavored ice cream when I became lactose intolerant a few months ago. The only lactose free ice cream I can find is vanilla.
But thanks to you, green tea here I come! Yay!