Sugimoto Hojicha (Roasted Green Tea)

Available from Chef Shop when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

2 oz bag - Japan Hojicha (ほうじ茶) is a Japanese green tea that's roasted over charcoal or in a porcelain pot at high heat, which gives it a distinctive reddish-brown color and a warm, toasty, slightly caramelized flavor that's quite different from the grassy, vegetal taste of most green teas. The roasting process was reportedly developed in Kyoto in the 1920s, when a tea merchant decided to roast leftover stems, stalks, and older leaves rather than waste them. So historically it began as a way to