Green Tea Sorbet Food

GREEN TEA SORBET

Steps:

• Place the water and gelatin in a medium saucepan; let dissolve for 5 minutes. Add sugar and corn syrup, bring to a boil, and cook over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes. Add the tea bags, remove pan from heat, and allow bags to steep for 10 to 15 minutes to infuse the flavor.
• Fill a large bowl with ice and water. Remove tea bags; transfer mixture to a bowl set in the ice bath to cool. Add the lemon juice and food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until the desired shade is reached. The color will lighten slightly when frozen.
• Freeze mixture in an ice-cream maker according to the manufacturer's directions until set but not hard. Transfer to a chilled loaf pan, wrap with plastic, and place in the freezer until firm, 4 hours or overnight. Serve garnished with Chinese hat tuiles.

RICE PUDDING WITH GREEN TEA APPLE SORBET AND CHILI PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, heat the cream to a boil and add the rice, sugar, orange zest, cardamom pods, and vanilla bean. Stir rice mixture until it becomes thick and creamy. Cook for approximately 15 minutes.
• To make the chili pineapple, melt the sugar in a saute pan and caramelize. Add the pineapple slices and cook for approximately 3 minutes. Add the butter and the chili powder and cook an additional minutes. Set aside until ready to use.
• Combine the green tea and sugar in a saucepan and heat the mixture to dissolve the sugar completely in order to make a syrup. Add the apple puree and allow the syrup to cool completely. Add the egg white and process the sorbet in an ice cream machine. Store in freezer until ready to use.
• To make the tuilles, whip together the egg whites, egg, confectioners' sugar, and bread flour until they are blended well and smooth. Fold in the orange and lemon zest and allow the batter to rest overnight in the refrigerator. Spread the batter onto a greased and floured pan into half dollar sizes and bake for a couple of minutes until edges just begin to turn brown. Immediately remove from oven and allow to cool flat.
• To serve, spoon rice pudding on plate and top with chili pineapple slices. Using 2 tuilles, create a sandwich with a sorbet scoop between the tuilles. Place on plate and serve.

GREEN TEA SORBET

Steps:

• Bring water to boil, add leaves, and remove from heat.
• Steep for 5 minutes.
• Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
• Strain through a fine sieve.
• Chill tea, covered, until cold and freeze in an ice cream maker.

TEA SORBET

Steps:

• Let the mint steep in the brewed tea for 30 minutes. Add the sugar syrup to make it very sweet. Add lemon juice to bring back the tea flavor and to reduce the sweetness. Freeze in an ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions.
• In a saucepan, combine sugar and water. Bring to a boil and simmer until sugar is dissolved, but no color is reached. Remove from the heat and let cool.

MANGO-GREEN TEA SORBET

Steps:

• Combine water and tea leaves in a saucepan. Bring just to a boil, remove from heat and let steep 5 minutes.
• Strain, discarding the leaves. (Do not press leaves to extract liquid, this makes the liquid bitter.)
• Return tea to clean saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil.
• Boil until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute.
• Remove from heat and cool about 30 minutes.
• Peel mangoes and cut fruit from pit. In a food processor or blender, puree mangoes with lemon juice.
• Add tea and blend until smooth. Pour into a glass 9-inch baking dish and freeze about 3 hours.
• Transfer mango mixture to a food processor.
• Pulse until smooth, 30 to 40 seconds.
• Serve at once or store in the freezer for up to 2 months.
• Soften 10 minutes before serving.

MATCHA SORBET

Steps:

• Combine granulated sugar and green tea powder in a bowl.
• Put 2 cups of water and the sugar mixture in a sauce pan.
• Heat until sugar dissolves.
• Soak the pan in a bowl of cold water to cool the liquid to room temperature. Pour the liquid in a freezer-safe container and put it in a freezer.
• Stir the sorbet every 30 minutes or one hour.
• Freeze until sorbet is alomost frozen.
• Serve into glasses.

JASMINE TEA SORBET

Steps:

• In a small saucepan bring water to a boil. Add tea leaves and remove pan from heat. Cover pan and steep tea 5 minutes. Add sugar, stirring until dissolved, and strain tea through a fine sieve into a bowl. Chill tea, covered, until cold and freeze in an ice-cream maker. Sorbet may be made 1 week ahead.