The ice is green

Can you guess what this is?

The picture above is not anything fancy like green sugar crystal. It is simply crushed green tea (matcha) ice cubes. Yes, I mentioned green tea again! But I do love the flavor of green tea so deeply that I will try to put that beautiful powder to anything. Well, almost anything…

This time round I made some crushed green-tea ice to serve with mung bean sweet soup. Mung bean sweet soup is a popular dessert in Asia. I love the version where skinned mung bean is boiled until very soft almost like a paste, sweetened with a little rock sugar then served with some coconut cream and crushed ice. This was my regular snack back in high school time, and until now I still believe it is a perfect drink for summer.

The idea of matching green tea flavor and mung bean actually turned out well. The green tea lends an interesting taste which cut back some sweetness of the mung bean. Not to mention the lovely and refreshing aroma. I ate my dessert with an extra bowl of crushed ice on the side so I could add as much as I wanted. It was fun and lovely to eat in the midst of summer.

I don’t have the exact recipe since everything was done just by the eyes. But you can view a similar recipe for the mung bean sweet soup here. For the green tea ice, simply dissolve 1 – 1.5 tablespoons matcha powder with a little hot water, then, mix with 1 cup of filtered water. Pour into your ice trays and let the fridge does the rest! You can crush the ice cubes easily in a food processor when ready to serve.