Green Tea Nama Chocolate

Nama chocolate has a wonderful texture as it melts on the tongue as soon as it hits your mouth. What is also fantastic about it is that it is also really, really easy and quick to make as it's essentially a soft ganache. I am one of those people that needs to have chocolate every day and one tablet of this gorgeous matcha chocolate is enough to satisfy any chocolate cravings (okay maybe two depending on the day that I've had). It also makes a wonderful gift for friends.

The other thing that I have for you is related to another purchase of matcha powder. I was standing in the queue at an Asian grocery store looking at the range of Japanese green tea chocolates available. I flipped over the boxes and saw the myriad ingredients in them so I decided to buy some powder to make my own. I remember making Japanese "Nama" chocolate, that unique chocolate high in cream and served in cocoa dusted squares popularised by brands such as Royce.

So tell me Dear Reader, are you one of those "must eat chocolate every day" kind of people? And what was your favourite recent purchase (or three!)?

Green Tea Nama Chocolate

An Original Recipe by Not Quite Nigella

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

• 400g best quality or your favourite white chocolate
• 200ml/7fl ozs. pure cream
• 2 tablespoons green tea powder plus extra for sprinkling

Step 1 - Line an 8x8inch square tin with baking parchment. On low to medium heat, place the white chocolate and cream and keep stirring with a flat bottomed spatula until melted but do not burn. Take out about 1/2 cup of the chocolate mixture and sift the green tea powder into the smaller amount. Whisk until smooth and then combine with the rest of the white chocolate mixture. Scoop into the prepared tin and allow to set in the fridge. It is a soft mixture and needs to be refrigerated.

Step 2 - Remove from the fridge and sift over the set chocolate. Cut into squares and serve with a small fork. Nama chocolate must be kept in the fridge because it is soft and has a high cream content.