Genmaicha
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| Type: | Green tea |
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| Other names: | 玄 米 茶 |
| Origin: | Japan |
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| Brief description: | malty, mild-fragrant |
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| Temperature: | 80 ° C |
| Time: | 1 min. |
Genmaicha ( Japanese 玄 米 茶 ) is a Japanese green tea preparation that contains roasted and partially puffed rice grains ; so-called brown rice is used , i.e. brown rice (Japanese 玄 米 , genmai ). This gives the tea a slightly malty roasted aroma.
history
According to an often cited story, Genmaicha happened to have emerged during the 15th century. Green tea is generally heated or lightly roasted to prevent fermentation . A careless servant is said to have worked sloppily and mixed the tea with a few grains of rice for too long; his master, a samurai , is said to have been so angry that he beheaded him only to discover shortly afterwards, ashamed, that this new tea had a pleasant taste.
Thanks to its relatively strong aroma, Genmaicha was always preferred when it was a matter of using the rare tea sparingly.
Genmaicha was originally known as a stretched poor man's tea and as a bridge between meals. Today, however, the tea is drunk in all classes of the population, also often together with the well-known Matcha . Manufacturing in China only started in 1986.
preparation
Basically, the same preparation applies to Genmaicha as to Sencha . Traditionally, however, multiple infusions are not used here.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Genmaicha no yurai (origin of Genmaicha) (accessed on July 18, 2017)
- ↑ Peter Rohrsen: The tea: cultivation, varieties, history . CH Beck, 2013, ISBN 3-406-65418-5 , pp. 48 ( limited preview in Google Book search).