Matcha Green Tea Cookie

Matcha is stone ground tea. While other green teas only has a fraction of the tea leaves’ benefits, matcha remains all the benefits of the tealeaves. Matcha provides vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, and amino acids, which no other green tea can provide fully. It is also said that matcha boosts metabolism and burns calories and detoxifies naturally.

  Ingredients

60g Butter (unsalted)

15g Granulated Sugar

10g Brown Sugar

1tbs Milk

95g All Purpose Flour

5g Matcha Powder

 Instruction

1. Whisk butter in a bowl until softened.

2. Add granulated and brown sugar into the bowl and whisk, then add milk and whisk again.

3. Add flour into the bowl and mix it with a spatula.

4. Divide the dough into two and add matcha powder into one dough and mix.

5. Spread both dough evenly over and put the matcha dough on the plain dough.

6. Roll them and make it like a stick. Put it in a freezer for 15 minutes.

7. Preheat the oven 350F.

8. Cut the dough into 7mm and place them on the baking tray. Bake them for 12 minutes.

                                                              

Energy Boost Salad

Great and easy option that is good not only for vegetarians but for everyone who knows the expression "We are what we eat". This salad works ideally even at late night and provides nutritional benefits for your heart, brain, and alimentary system. If you want to support your organism in the middle or after a long day, check this recipe out.

Ingredients per 1-2 servings: 

- 1/3 of large english cucumber OR 1 small
- 3 tbsp of canned kernel corn
- 4 tomatoes campari
- 3-4 broccoli crowns
- 3 salad leaves
- Green onions (we took 3)
- 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Ground pepper

YHD tip: before cutting broccoli crowns in your salad, put them in a bowl with boiled water for 15-30 seconds, then take them out and wait till they cool down a little bit. This will help you to kill all bacterias that can hide in broccoli inflorescence.

Enjoy your beautiful and tasty salad!

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Tofu Steak

Time for a healthy Japanese dish which is easy and quick to make .

Tofu is known as healthy ingredient. It is a great source of calcium iron and protein with low calories. The proteins in tofu (soya protein) is thought to help lower levels of bad cholesterol. Taking it with some vegetables and mushrooms provides more variety of nutrition to you.  

Ingredients

- 100g Tofu
- 2 Mushrooms
- 1 bunch of Green Onion

- 1/4 Onion

- 3 tbs Starch

- 1 tsp Sugar

- 2 tbs Soy sauce

- 1 tbs Sake

- 1 tbs Mayonnaise

- 3 tbs Water

- 4 tbs Olive oil

Instruction

1. Wrap tofu with kitchen towel and microwave for 2 minutes. Cool it down.

2. Cut mushrooms and vegetables into small pieces. Slice tofu into 1cm and cover it with starch.

3. Heat a pan and put olive oil. Put tofu, mushrooms and onion in a pan. Grill them until browned.

4. Take out tofu and turn the heat off. Put sugar, soy sauce, sake, water and mayonnaise in the pan. Put green onion there and turn the heat on to bring it to simmer.

5. Garnish it with lettuce and tomato and it is ready to serve .

                                    

Healthy Tuna Spring Mix Salad with Roasted Sesame Dressing

    When it comes to healthy eating, you can't get enough of salad. Bring the salad game to Asia with this quick and easy Tuna Spring Mix Salad with Roasted Sesame Dressing. It's creamy with the healthy fats. The shallot and roasted sesame seeds give it a refreshing fragrant as well as crunch.


Roasted Sesame Dressing:

Ingredients:

• 1 Tbsp minced Shallot
  
• 5 Tbsp Mayonnaise
  
• 2 Tbsp roasted sesame seeds
  
• 2 Tsp soy sauce
  
• 1-2 Tsp sugar or honey for healthier kick so in this recipe I will use honey
  
• 1/2 Tsp salt
• 2 Tsp sesame oil
  
• 1 Tbsp Vinegar- you can use normal or rice Vinegar
  

Instructions:

1. Roast your sesame seeds- either using  a pan on medium low heat or for time sake- using a microwave ( you have to check every 30 sec and make sure you are not burning the seeds :P )

2. Clean your shallot & mince it by busting out your best knife in the kitchen and making a series of vertical cuts along the shallot but leave the root part to keep the strips intact. Using your finger to keep the strip close to one another on the cutting board. Then you cut against the strips right in the middle of the shallot and make a series of cuts at a 90 degree angle to your vertical cuts that are also the same wide as your vertical cuts. Cutting this in a circular motion with the tip of your knife slice the far end of the shallot, the bottom end will slice the closest end of the shallot to you, and your knife always has a part that never leave the cutting board. This will allow every piece will be sliced in a single motion.

3. Put all ingredients in a container, and mix well.

And here is the result- I made the portion quadruple :P

I then put some Spring Mix Salad in a bowl and put enough dressing on top then toss salad

Put a spoon full of tuna on top as well as some slices of tomato or some cherry tomatoes and Voilà! 

Enjoy your Tuna Spring Mix Salad with Roasted Sesame Dressing !

P/s: Put whatever toppings your like. It can be raisin, dice apple for a crunch, or boiled egg.

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