Create a fabulously blue drink or dye your food naturally with butterfly pea flowers.
Cook Time5 minutesmins
Total Time5 minutesmins
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Asian
Keyword: butterfly pea flower, tea
Servings: 1serving
Calories: 10kcal
Ingredients
Butterfly pea flowers
Boiling water
Lemon juiceoptional
Hibiscus leavesoptional
Instructions
Make your butterfly pea flower tea by steeping petals in hot water. Add in honey, lemon, mint, cinnamon, ginger, or passion fruit for traditional optional flavours.
To change the colour from blue to purple, add some lemon juice. To change the colour to red, add in hibiscus leaves.
To use as dye, heat flowers in a pot of boiling water. Steep until most of the colour is gone. You can test this by removing a flower, giving it a squeeze, and making sure no more colour comes out.
Use the dye as a base for drinks or in your cooking to turn food blue naturally.