If you’re looking for a new and easy way to use green tea powder, you’ve come to the right place. Today we show you how to make a delicious matcha spread using two simple and healthy ingredients. In no time at all you’ll have a creamy vegan butter that’s bursting with goodness!
This matcha spread recipe is based on the famous matcha milk spread, also known as matcha milk jam.
It’s a green tea butter popular in Korea, made from refined oils, milk powder, and sugar, and cooked with matcha powder into a sweet and runny green spread.
Although delicious, the original spread is not very healthy. So we decided to make a healthy, sugar and dairy free version of matcha butter.
All you need to make this green tea spread is matcha powder and cashew nut butter. That’s it.
Nut butters are naturally silky, creamy, and full of flavor. So you don’t need any extra oil or sugar. It’s the perfect spread base to which you add the green tea powder.
For best results, we recommend using nut butter made from cashews or blanched almonds instead of peanut butter.
There are two reasons for this:
Firstly, the taste of cashews or almonds is not as strong as that of peanuts, so you can taste more delicious matcha flavor in the spread.
Second, if you start with a light nut spread like cashew butter, the butter will look a lot greener. Matcha spread with peanut butter will instead turn out more brownish and not as pretty.
Not many things in life are both healthy and incredibly simple, but this Green Tea Flavored Butter is the exception! It has a rich and creamy texture with earthy, bittersweet and grassy notes of matcha powder. You will love it!
The standard ingredients make a generous jar of green tea butter, around 300g (10.5 oz), perfect for a week-long brew.
And here’s some good news: This matcha spread is super versatile. You can have it on your morning toast, pancakes, waffles and crepes; You can add it to cakes and energy bars; or simply enjoy a spoonful straight from the glass – we know you won’t be able to resist (we didn’t!).