At first, it may seem odd including green tea as a staple in your kitchen - but remember, it's an herb too. It's time for some experimentation!

Try our convenient organic green tea powder with a host of hot or cold beverages. Use our organic loose leaf freely, or for a finer powder simply grind the leaves in an inexpensive coffee grinder. You're only limited by your imagination.

Green tea is fantastic in many foods and beverages.  Add green tea to smoothies, juice, dressings, seasonings & soups.  Use the whole green tea leaf as a topping on salads, rice dishes, potatoes (mashed, roasted or baked), fish, pasta, vegetarian pizza or as a garnish for hors d'oeuvres (stump your friends at your next party).

Green tea serves as a flavor enhancer for foods that are complex and strongly flavored. It's a great choice with curry, garlic, and light Mexican foods.

You can serve green tea with heavier desserts like cakes, pies, and pastries made of fruit. Experiment with green tea in chocolate chip cookies, brownies and little frosted sugar cookies.  Add green tea to cereal, energy bars, cakes, chocolate pudding, lattes, smoothies, and of course, the famous green tea ice cream.

Green tea makes the easiest iced tea on the planet. Carry one of our sencha green tea powder tins in your purse or carrying case. No matter where you are, just order a glass of ice water and add a scoop of powder. You've got instant, healthy, tasty refreshment. Add honey for extra sweetness. 

Be Bold! Experiment and let us know your favorite uses and recipes. 

Share the good news! To share your green tea recipes online, send an email to: recipes@emeraldcitytea.com

Some of our favorite uses for this health-promoting herb is in smoothies and instant drinks.  Here are a few of our favorite green tea recipes:

Orange possibiliTea*

Emerald minTea*

Daily Function Fuel  

Green Nutrition Monster 

Just Peachy Iced Green Tea 

Green Tea Oatmeal Cookies

Green Tea Chai

(Instant Iced Tea) Looking for an instant, tasty and refreshing pick-me-up? The hint of orange in this tea will soothe the need for that afternoon sweet treat. Smooth and juicy...just think of the possibiliTeas!

Yield: 2 servings

2 level scoops Emerald City Tea Sencha Green Tea Powder
½ cup Pure water, cold
1-4 drops Orange extract
or
1 or 2 Twists of a fresh orange peel*
Approx. 2 tsp. Agave nectar or sweetener of choice, to taste
1 ½ cups Pure water, cold, reserve for step 3

Directions:
1. Place all ingredients, except 1½ cups water, in a Blender Bottle® or other shaker cup.
2. Shake well to blend thoroughly.
3. Add remaining 1 ½ cups of water, serve with ice. Citrus and green tea flavors.
Perfect!

• To extract the essence of any citrus from the peel, take a piece of the peel from a wedge and fold it, so the bright part is on the outside, and squeeze hard to sprits the tea with the fresh oil. This works with any citrus peel including lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, etc. Go crazy. A little goes a long way and you can't overdo it.
• If using extract, I find keeping them in little squeeze bottles makes adding a drop or two to anything very convenient and saves waste. Also it's easy to overdo it on the extract, often less is more.

*Submitted by Gary Newberry, raw food chef and owner of Main Stay Cuisine

(Instant Iced Tea) The versatility of our Sencha Green Tea Powder will amaze you when you blend it together with liquid chlorophyll. The beautiful emerald green color will enhance your enjoyment of this refreshing elixir and the hint of mint - perfect!

Yield: 2 Servings

2 level scoops Emerald City Tea Sencha Green Tea Powder
½ cup Pure water, hot or cold
1½ tsp. Liquid Chlorophyll (mint)
2 tsp. Agave Nectar* (or sweetener of choice)
1 ½ cups Pure water, cold, reserve for step 4.

Directions:
1. Place all ingredients in a Blender Bottle® or other shaker cup.
2. Shake well to blend thoroughly.
3. Add remaining 1 ½ cups of water, serve with ice.
4. Ready to drink immediately or allow it to "steep" for 15 minutes to
12 hours for more of the tea's flavor.

Enjoy!

• Agave Nectar is an absolutely delicious sweetener made from the agave plant. It's becoming more available in the mainstream now and you can usually find in the more health oriented grocery stores and on line now.

*Submitted by Gary Newberry, raw food chef and owner of Main Stay Cuisine

Breakfast is a critical meal for your body. We've all heard that breakfast is the most important meal
of the day. The by-line to that should have been "but a breakfast of processed sugars and concentrated fruit juice isn't the answer." Do your body this favor. Start everyday with a nutrient dense meal. Your cells will thank you. Soon your body won't remember how it functioned before the days of Function Fuel.

Yield: 20oz serving

8 ounces rice or soy milk, or other plant milk of your choice
1 banana
1-1 ½ Cups Blueberries - or your favorite berries
2-3 teaspoons Organic Sencha Green Tea Leaves, ground*
3-4 teaspoons Chia Seeds, preferrably ground (amazing source of omega 3s)
4-6 ounces fltered water, for desired consistency

Kick up the nutrition by including a protein, whole-food, vitamin, or soy powder.
* If using Emerald City Tea's Sencha Green Tea Powder, use 1-2 mini-scoops with spoon provided.

Directions
Start with rice or soy milk and add chia seeds and ground green tea (which you can
grind together in a coee grinder). Add remaining ingredients in the blender and blend for
approximately one minute. Enjoy!
 

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The name and the ingredients sound scary - they did to us at fIrst too. Be brave!
Here we combine green tea with another of nature's miracle foods - avocados. This little monster
combines the superior nutrition of green tea with the amazing avocado. Avocados are high in
potassium, magnesium, protein, numerous phytonutrients, fiber and healthy plant-derived fats.

Yield: 24oz serving

Half to 1 Avocado
2 cups Rice, Soy or other plant milk
1-2 teaspoons Organic Sencha Green Tea Leaves, ground
1 tablespoon honey
3-4 teaspoons Chia Seeds (amazing source of omega 3s)
1 banana (optional)
1 handful ice cubes

* If using concentrated sencha powder, use two mini-scoops with scoop provided
** Inspired by a recipe from Mike Adams at www.newstarget.com

Directions:
Put all ingredients in the blender and blend for approximately one minute. Enjoy.
This will be a curious adventure for your taste buds when you first try it, but you'll be
surprised how quickly you'll start to crave this Nutrition Monster more and more. The mild
avocado and honey flavor are a unique treat. It's very tasty combination and the healthy fats
and fiber will leave you more than satisfied.

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Tastes so good everyone will forget how healthy it is for them.

Yield:  24oz serving

2 scoops Organic Sencha Powder* - with scoop provided
3 cups filtered water
2 ripe peaches** pitted and sliced (shortcut:1 can organic, drained)
1 teaspoon honey, agave nector or succanat

Directions:
Place cold water and sliced peaches in a saucepan and bring to a boil. (Or blend canned
peaches and water in a blender.)
Pour water into a pitcher then add the Sencha Powder & sweetener of choice
Allow to cool then refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.
* Powder does not dissolve entirely. Simple stir to redistribute powder and serve.
** Also wonderful with pineapple or papaya..

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This is a nice way to introduce this healthy herb to the family.

Yield: 36 cookies

2 sticks butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 ½ cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1-2 tablespoons Organic Sencha Green Tea Leaves, ground*
3 cups oatmeal

* If using concentrated sencha powder, use two-three mini-scoops with scoop provided
Can grind loose leaf sencha tea in coffee grinder

Directions
Preheat oven to 375º
Combine ingredients and use a tablespoon to drop onto greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375º for 10 minutes.

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Refreshing...no, relaxing...no, refreshing...no...you decide..

Yield: 8oz serving

1 cup hot soy or rice milk
1 scoop Organic Sencha Powder* - with scoop provided
dash top with cinnamon, ginger and allspice

Directions
Blend, top, take off your shoes, take a deep breath, enjoy

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