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In this video : Making Matcha-coladas.
In this video we're going to have some fun [by] combining our ceremonial Matcha and making
some Matcha-coladas.
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We're in Sayulita, in Nayarit county in Mexico.
It's our last day here.
We're heading back to London tomorrow.
We're at our friend Kelvin's place, and we thought we'd mess around and see if we can
make a nice version of a holiday drink - the classic Pina Colada, but using Matcha.
This video is certainly not one for the purist out there, but this is something that we like
to to at our [tea] bar in Camden, in London, which is just taking tea and mixing it up
to see what delicious drinks we can come up with.
Let's get on with it.
What I have here is a fresh coconut.
You can obviously use coconut water if you want.
I'm just going to pour in [the juice] directly from the coconut.
You don't get much better than this.
[They have] some amazing produce here.
We're going to pour in about 250 ml, which is something in the region of around 1 cup
- for U.S. viewers out there - of coconut water, and we're going to blend that with
a good handful of this beautiful, freshly cut, pineapple.
Now, of course, you can use pineapple juice if you want.
That's perfectly fine as well, but we've got this amazingly fresh pineapple here, so we're
going to use that.
[Now we'll add] a little bit of lime.
We've got about a quarter of a lime, but obviously every lime is slightly different, so you're
going to get different amounts.
Just do it to taste, just to give iit some acidity.
And because they're got amazing, amazing avocados here, [which are] really, really creamy, [and]
will give it a really nice texture - kind of like a slight smoothie texture - we're
going to put a little bit of avocado, just about an eight, in here.
Then we'll add] just a splash of coconut milk.
[2:02] This is going to be completely dairy free.
[It's] going to have no dairy at all in it.
We're then going to add some Matcha.
We don't have any teaspoons here, so we're going to be using a knife, but I'm going to
estimate something like a heaped teaspoon of Matcha; something like this.
This is our ceremonial - Oops!
[I] made a mess, but I can save it.
There you go.
That's going to give it a nice vibrant green color, and give it a just that lovely kind
of tea taste, [which is] a little bit grassy [and] different compared to the normal Pina
Colada flavor.
We'll blitz that up.
We need to make sure we blitz it up quite well to make sure [we] blend all of the Matcha
in with it.
[Let's] give it...
Okay.
Here we go.
Let's give this a taste.
I’ve got a cup filled with some ice already.
We're going to pour this.
[The] consistency is really nice.
As you can see it's a lovely kind of [texture], just starting to approach a smoothle.You want
to serve it over ice just to make sure it's really cold.
Obviously it's very, very hot here in Mexico.
It's really delicious, actually.
[It's] really complex.
You get the creaminess of the avocado, the acidity of the lime, the amazing sweetness
of this pineapple here, and just that hint of coconut with the coconut water.
[This all] makes it a lovely rendition of the Pina Colada.
You could obviously use pineapple juice if you want to, if you can't get fresh pineapple
that's sweet enough.
But if you get the chance get some coconut water and some fresh pineapple.
It's a really nice way to do it.
Now, of course, if you want you can add rum to this, or a nice aged tequila, or a mescal
- whatever your tipple of choice is.
We'll probably make some more of these, and [since] it's our last night here in Sayulita
we're going to go and have a party.
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Other than that, I'm Don Mei from Mei Leaf, saying goodbye from Sayulita in Mexico.
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