Green tea ice cream is green and isn’t as well known of a flavor of ice cream like chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla ice cream. Green tea ice cream is also called matcha aisu kurimu and is a flavor of Japanese ice cream. Green tea ice cream is a very popular flavor of ice cream in Japan. In addition, most ice cream manufacturers in Japan produced some type of green tea ice cream and some foreign ice cream makers have versions of green tea ice cream as well. Haagen-Dazs is one ice cream maker that created a version of green tea ice cream. Green tea ice cream is green in color and in Japanese green tea cream translates into matcha ice cream. Matcha is a Japanese green tea that is used for the Japanese tea ceremony. Matcha ice cream is also used in other Japanese sweets and desserts such as cream puffs. Green tea ice cream is also created and sold in a monaka form.

Ingredients for Green Tea Ice Cream

The ice cream industry is very popular. In fact, Food Network has a contest to discover the newest ice cream flavor. In addition, on the Food Network website, there are ingredients and recipes in order to make green ice cream for summertime parties. Below are the ingredients for a version of green tea ice cream was part of an episode called Far East Sweets.

• Heavy cream
• Half and half
• Vanilla beans
• Egg yolks
• Sugar
• Green tea powder/ Matcha or green tea