{"id":1052,"date":"2023-05-16T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T08:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/uncategorized\/what-is-houjicha-roasted-green-tea-powder\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:45:29","slug":"what-is-houjicha-roasted-green-tea-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/tutorials\/what-is-houjicha-roasted-green-tea-powder\/","title":{"rendered":"What is hojicha roasted green tea powder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post_excerpt content-formatted content-formatted--overflowed-images mar_t-48 mar_b-64\">\n<div class=\"post_excerpt content-formatted content-formatted--overflowed-images mar_t-48 mar_b-64\">Hojicha powder is roasted green tea powder that tastes roasty, nutty and mildly sweet. Its color is ash brown. You can prepare a hojicha tea by whisking the powder with water (likewise with matcha) or make it into hojicha latte by adding frothed milk. Both ways it is a highly nourishing and aromatic drink.<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_body content-formatted content-formatted--overflowed-images mar_b-64\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/houjicha-powder\/houjicha-powder\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Our hojicha powder<\/a> originates from a small farm nearby Kyoto which makes its hojicha powder only from ground leaves (no stems are used). It is pan fried and medium roasted (roasting has three levels: light, medium, high). Medium roasting means the taste is medium strong, whereby the richness and round taste is retained.<\/p>\n<h2>Hojicha benefits<\/h2>\n<p>1. Hojicha has low caffeine level and is suitable for drinking also in evening time.\u00a0 The high caffeine level of green tea leaves is hit by high roasting heat. Roasting eliminates also bitterness from green tea leaves, characteristic to matcha powder.<\/p>\n<p>2. According to studies made in Japan, hojicha is antioxidant rich. Among other things, it is rich in L-theanine, which supports and calms the nerve system, and polyphenols, which are natural protectors of the immune system against pathogens. The catechins in it help to reduce bad cholesterol, lower blood pressure and blood sugar as well as help to ensure faster metabolism.<\/p>\n<h2>How to prepare hojicha tea from powder<\/h2>\n<p>You can whisk a tea with hot water from hojicha (similar to matcha tea). Sieve 3 g powder into a matcha bowl, add 30 ml room temperature water and mix it into paste with bamboo whisk. Add 60 ml water (80-degrees) and whisk it into frothy tea.<br \/>\nTry making also a hojicha latte with frothy milk. See the recipe <a href=\"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/recipes\/houjicha-latte-recipe\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buy here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/houjicha-powder\/houjicha-powder\/\">Matchamurai hojicha powder<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hojicha powder is roasted green tea powder that tastes roasty, nutty and mildly sweet. Its color is ash brown. You can prepare a hojicha tea by whisking the powder with water (likewise with matcha) or make it into hojicha latte by adding frothed milk. Both ways it is a highly nourishing and aromatic drink. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-houjicha-recipes","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchamurai.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}