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Fukamushicha is deep-steamed green.

Ingredients (for 1 person):
1 heaped teaspoon (2-3g) organic deep steamed tea leaves
250ml water
commercial pizza crust 17cm
40g cream cheese
pinch of salt
*You can also use regular sencha.

Method:
1. Brew the tea in a teapot, take out the tea leaves and drain.
Please refer to the article How to brew sencha (steamed green tea) on this site. Put aside the tea to drink later.
2. Put the cream cheese, drained tea leaves and salt into a bowl and mix well.
3. Spread the mixture onto the pizza crust to coat it.
4. Bake in the middle of an oven preheated to 200C (392F), for 10-12 minutes.

*Tea leaves contain caffeine. The diuretic, stimulant and anticancer effects of caffeine intake are clinically recognized. On the other hand, excessive intake of caffeine may have a damaging effect on health. Especially, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and children should be careful with the amount of caffeine they intake.

Reference:
農林水産省 カフェインの過剰摂取について
https://www.maff.go.jp/index.html
公益社団法人日本茶業中央会(2013) 新版 茶の機能: ヒト試験から分かった新たな役割 第一刷 一般社団法人農山漁村文化協会
大森正司、阿南豊正、伊勢村護、加藤みゆき、滝口明子、中村羊一郎編(2017) 茶の事典 初版第一刷 朝倉書店
高野實、谷本陽蔵、富田勲、中川致之、岩浅潔、寺本益英、山田新市 (2005) 緑茶の事典 改訂3版 柴田書店

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