Hojicha
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
4 Reviews
The smoothest way from black tea to Japanese green tea? This is the one. Hojicha is made from roasted green tea leaves, ground into a fine powder. Warm, toasted and naturally sweet, with none of the grassy notes you might expect. Perfect whisked and poured over milk - it makes a deliciously smooth and easy drinking tea latte.
Nutty, toasty, naturally sweet.
Produced in Shizuoka, Japan by a single producer.
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Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
481 Reviews
Our crowd-pleasing tea mugs. They hold a full teapot's worth of tea. Just the right amount to brew our tea bags perfectly.
£18
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An essential bit of kit to help you make a consistently cracking cup of tea.
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How to Brew
2g
Scoop
80°
Boiling Water
2
Minutes
Getting your hojicha paste right is the foundation of any drink you might make, hot or cold. Start with 2g of hojicha (which you might increase to 3g if you want to enhance those roasted notes) and slowly whisk in around 80ml of water. The key here is to whisk widely and gently for about a minute, until you get a smooth, silken bubble foam on top.
Brewing Tip
Note with care that water temperature; boiling water is truly the enemy of any green tea, even when it's roasted. If you want your hojicha stronger, just use a touch more of it, rather than using hot water, and if you notice separation as you drink your latte, just give it a stir.
Ingredients
Shizuoka Hojicha
Origins
Think of it as the black tea drinker's way into this whole new world of tea lattes. Where matcha is grassy and vegetal, hojicha is rounder and warmer, closer to the kind of thing you'd already reach for. It works well with milk, hot or iced, and it takes flavour beautifully if you want to add it - vanilla, cinnamon, and salted caramel are great places to start, but richer sugars like heather honey or maple syrup are also excellent.
Fig. 1
The big Question
Milk
None
Strength
Strong
Light
Colour
Strong
Light
A Quick Hojicha How To
Mixing tips and tricks for a perfect Hojicha tea latte.
Make your hojicha base
Add 2g of matcha to your bowl & whisk really well, using 80ml of cooler-than-boiling water to keep any bitterness to a minimum.
Milk first or last?
You've got two choices here. The easiest is if you've got a steaming jug, you can mix the matcha into the milk and steam together. This results in a perfectly combined latte. But if you're looking for the two toned serve, then add your hojicha at the end, on top of your steamed milk and you'll get some swirling, mixing going on - this is really effective when making iced drinks especially.
Jazz it up
Looking to emphasise the natural, roasted sweetness? Go for richer sugars, such as honey or maple syrup. If you're making an iced drink and want a top tier tastebud challenge, we thoroughly recommend a sweetened tahini - both mixed into the drink, and as an artful smear.
Job well done
Now there's just time to enjoy. A note on hojicha - it tends to separate more than matcha (especially if you've not steamted them together), so prepare to give the drink a bit of a stir about halfway through. A light dust of allspice is also a very welcome autumnal addition, for when the time comes. Cheers.
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