How to Make a Matcha Latte

Matcha Latte Recipe

Fresh, creamy, and full of antioxidants. Learn how to make a café-worthy matcha latte at home with only three ingredients, including our ceremonial-grade matcha powder.

For making great matcha at home, we recommend getting your hands on a high-quality matcha making kit. The Grind Matcha Tea Set you can buy online is the same set we've been using in our cafés and coffee shops for years. It's a good one. 

This is a super easy recipe, but if you're looking for a ready-to-drink shortcut, shop our Iced Oat Matcha Latte Cans. It's your favourite café order, cooled and canned for a green boost on-the-go. 

Matcha Latte Ingredients

Makes 1 Matcha Latte.

½ tsp (1g) Grind matcha powder

200ml milk or plant-based alternative

1 tsp honey, maple syrup, sugar, or sweetener of choice (optional)

How to Make a Matcha Latte

1. Prepare your matcha by whisking 1g matcha powder with around 50ml filtered hot water (not boiling water, which will burn the matcha). The mixture should be smooth and consistent, without any lumps.
2. Heat and froth your milk in a pan or in a Milk Frother. 
3. Combine the matcha and the hot milk and give it a good stir.
   

Iced Matcha Latte Recipe

If you’re looking for the same matcha boost during the warmer weather, an iced matcha latte is a great option. Here's our iced matcha latte recipe.

Iced Matcha Latte Ingredients

Makes 1 Iced Matcha Latte.

½ tsp (1g) Grind matcha powder

200ml milk or plant-based alternative

1 tsp honey, maple syrup, sugar, or sweetener of choice (optional)

Ice (extra cool if you use our Grind Ice Cube Tray)

How to Make an Iced Matcha Latte

1. Prepare your matcha by whisking 1g matcha powder with around 50ml filtered hot water (not boiling water, which will burn the matcha). The mixture should be smooth and consistent, without any lumps.
2. Combine the matcha mixture with 200ml cold milk and pour over a glass of ice.
   
3. Give it a good stir and enjoy. 

What Is Matcha?

Matcha is a Japanese green tea powder. It comes from the leaves of the same plant (Camellia sinensis) that regular green tea comes from, but it is grown and processed differently: to make matcha, farmers cover and grow the leaves in the shade before harvesting, steaming, drying, and grinding the leaves. This increases their chlorophyll content, not only making them a vibrant green but adding nutrients and flavours that you won’t find in standard green tea. 

Rather than steeping the leaves in hot water like you would other teas, these leaves are ground into a fine powder.

What Does Matcha Taste Like? 

Matcha is known for its bright, earthy, and vegetal taste, which is refreshingly balanced by a natural sweetness and strong umami flavour. It can be enjoyed on its own as a traditional tea, or you can add it to lattes, smoothies, milkshakes, and more. 

High-quality matcha (like ours) tends to have a smoother, rounder taste than lower-grade matcha, which will be more bitter. Pure ceremonial-grade matcha is fresh, earthy, and full-bodied, with a natural nuttiness and delicate sweetness. 

You can find a full breakdown of the flavour profile of matcha tea on our blog here.

Get Started with the Grind Matcha Range

Matcha is a wellness powerhouse that tastes good and does good—just take a look at its long list of health benefits. 

We take matcha as seriously as we take coffee (which is very, very seriously), and we created our premium at-home range after spending years mastering matcha in our cafés. Our ceremonial-grade matcha is sourced from Uji, Japan, where it’s hand-picked and stone-ground to bring you a smooth taste, full body, and bright flavour. 

If you want to whisk up some café-worthy matcha at home, we’d recommend our Matcha Powder and Matcha Tea Set, which has everything you need to make authentic matcha from your kitchen. 

For the on-the-go drinkers tired of café queues, we have our ready-to-drink Iced Oat Matcha Latte, and this all tastes better when you’re wearing our On a Matcha Run Baseball Cap.