This recipe is a little different from the traditional green tea mochi recipes you may find online. Instead of mixing the matcha in the mochi dough, I decided to make the taste light by only lightly dusting the matcha green tea afterwards into the mochi. Ingredients: 1/2 cup Glutinous Rice Flour such as Mochiko 1/8 cup sugar 1/3 cup water Potato/tapioca starch Matcha Green Tea 1) In a microwave bowl, mix in sugar and rice flour. 2) Next, pour in water and stir the solution well until everything is full dissolved. The batter should look like cream of rice. 3) Transfer the bowl into a microwave and nuke it for two minutes on high. Microwave ovens vary so you may need to microwave the solution more or less around the two minute range. 4) The dough should form into a sticky goey consistency in which you should stir it up a bit once more. (I used a fork because the dough is hot, wouldn’t want to use my hands) 5) On a dusting board or plate, sprinkle starch and matcha green tea together. Blend the dusting mixture well until you get a pale green color, you may add more matcha for a greener effect. 6) Dust your hands and grab a small piece of the mochi dough *careful, it’s hot!) 7) Place the small chunk on the dusting mixture and knead the dough into it. Next roll the dough into a smooth ball and redust the mochi with the dusting flour. 9) Repeat the steps 6-8 until all the dough is used up. Serve on a platter. (Mochi can be stored in a air tight plastic bag at room temperature)

Green tea is tea made solely with the leaves of Camellia sinensis that have undergone minimal oxidation during processing. Green tea originates from China and has become associated with many cultures in Asia from Japan and South Korea to the Middle East. Recently, it has become more widespread in the West, where black tea is traditionally consumed. Many varieties of green tea have been created in countries where they are grown. These varieties can differ substantially due to variable growing conditions, horticulture, production processing, and harvesting time. Over the last few decades green tea has been subjected to many scientific and medical studies to determine the extent of its long-purported health benefits, with some evidence suggesting that regular green tea drinkers have lower chances of heart disease and developing certain types of cancer.Although green tea does not raise the metabolic rate enough to produce immediate weight loss, a green tea extract containing polyphenols and caffeine has been shown to induce thermogenesis and stimulate fat oxidation, boosting the metabolic rate 4% without increasing the heart rate.