If you’re looking for a new and easy way to use green tea powder, you’re in the right place. Today, we’ll show you how to make a delicious matcha spread with two simple and healthy ingredients. In no time, you’ll have a creamy vegan butter 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 and made with refined oils, milk powder, and sugar, all simmered with matcha powder into a sweet and runny green spread.
Although tasty, the original spread is not very healthy. So, we decided to make a wholesome, sugar-free, and dairy-free version of matcha butter.
All you need to prepare this green tea spread is matcha powder and cashew nut butter. That’s it.
Nut butter is naturally silky, creamy, and full of flavour. So you won’t need any extra oil or sugar. It’s the perfect spread base to which you’ll add the green tea powder.
For best results, we recommend using nut butter made with cashews or blanched almonds instead of peanut butter.
That’s for two reasons:
First, the taste of cashews or almonds is not as strong as that of peanuts, so you’ll taste more of delicious matcha flavour in the spread.
Second, the butter will look much greener if you start with a light coloured nut spread, like cashew butter. Matcha spread made with peanut butter will be more brownish instead, and not as pretty.
Not many things in life are both healthy and incredibly easy, but this green tea-flavoured butter is the exception! It has a rich and creamy texture with earthy, bittersweet, and grassy notes from matcha powder. You’ll love it!
The default ingredients yield one generous jar of green tea butter, about 300g (10.5 oz), perfect for the whole week.
And here’s more 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 bakes and energy bars; or simply enjoy a spoonful right off the jar — we know you won’t resist it (we didn’t!).