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Say goodbye to store-bought mixed green tea and turmeric powders with questionable hygiene standards. Making green tea and turmeric powders at home is incredibly simple, so let's get started right away!
With 1kg of fresh tea leaves, you can yield 100g of clean and safe green tea powder. Refer to the method below to make green tea powder as an ingredient for delicious pastries, cooking, and beauty treatments.
1. Crafting Green Tea Powder.
Essential Ingredients for Making Green Tea Powder:
- Green Tea Leaves: 1kg, choose leaves that are slightly matured and not too young or damaged.
- Salt: A pinch.
Steps to Make Green Tea Powder:
Step 1: Upon purchasing green tea, remove the stems, wash the leaves with a pinch of salt. Then drain and spread the leaves out to dry in the sun for 2-3 days until they are crisp and brittle.
Step 2: Remove the stems from the leaves, only use the green tea leaves, then put all the cleaned leaves into a blender and grind finely. Strain the mixture through a sieve multiple times to obtain the finest green tea powder. Repeat the process with any remaining coarse powder, sieving multiple times until the green tea powder is very fine. Store the green tea powder in a clean, dry glass jar for later use.
Requirements for the Final Product of Making Green Tea Powder:
- Green tea powder should have a natural green color, a fine dry texture, and should dissolve easily in water.
- With green tea powder, you can evenly mix it with natural beauty ingredients such as olive oil, honey, coconut oil, fresh milk, fresh lemon, etc., to create an effective daily skincare mask. Alternatively, it can be used as a great ingredient in cooking.
Outcome of Making Green Tea Powder at Home
Important Note Regarding Making Green Tea Powder
With this method of making green tea powder, it's best not to dry the powder under strong sunlight. It's advisable to dry it in a place without direct sunlight because excessive sunlight exposure will cause the tea leaves to turn an unappealing yellow color. Leaves that are not completely dry are prone to sunburn.
2. Making Turmeric Starch
Ingredients:
- Fresh turmeric: Choose vibrant yellow turmeric rhizomes;
- Blender;
- Use filter cloth, a thin sieve can be used.
Execution Steps
Step 1: Peel the fresh turmeric, then rinse thoroughly to drain.
Step 2: After draining, cut the turmeric into small pieces and put them into a blender with a small amount of water. Blend until smooth, then strain through filter cloth, repeating the process until the liquid is clear without sediment.
Step 3: Let the turmeric settle with a bit of water. The turmeric sediment will settle at the bottom of the container.
Skim off the top layer of water to obtain the turmeric sediment. Place the turmeric sediment in a bit of water and boil it. This will result in a pure turmeric mixture. Drying or sun-drying this mixture will yield solid turmeric extract.
Step 4: The final step is to grind the solid extract into a fine powder to obtain pure turmeric starch.
Note:
Making turmeric powder is as simple as slicing fresh turmeric into thin pieces and drying it before grinding it into a powder for cooking.
Turmeric starch is a type of powder that has undergone the extraction of its essential oils, resins, and other impurities. Because of this process, turmeric starch contains a high concentration of curcumin, which is highly valued by many. Nowadays, turmeric is used in turmeric starch facial masks, favored by women for its skin brightening properties.
Turmeric starch
Wishing you success with the green tea powder and turmeric powder recipes above!
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