Butterfly Pea Tea | Blue Tea
Butterfly pea tea or blue tea is an herbal drink that is very popular in Thailand. It's lovely either hot or cold and you can add more flavor to it with a bit of honey and a squeeze of lime. The best part is you can make it under 10 minutes!
Servings: 2 drinks
Equipment
Ingredients
Butterfly Pea Tea
- ¼ cup dried butterfly pea flowers
- 2 cups water
- 2 glasses ice
Optional
- sugar or simple syrup or honey to taste
- lime juice or lemon juice to taste
Instructions
- Boil 2 cups of water in a kettle. Transfer the water to a medium or large Pyrex measuring cup and add the dried butterfly pea flowers to the water.
- Stir the flowers in the water with a spoon and use the back of the spoon to press the flowers against the cup to extract their color.
- Continue to press the flowers for a few minutes or the color of the tea is dark enough.
- Strain the tea with a mesh strainer and discard the flowers. Add sugar or syrup or honey and/or lemon or lime juice, if using.
- Fill two glasses with ice.
- Pour the blue pea tea into the glasses.
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Notes
- To make blue tea, you can use either fresh or dried butterfly pea flowers.
- If you want the color to be strong, let the flowers steep in hot water for a few minutes and use the back of a spoon to press the flowers against the cup to extract more color.
- If you're making a large amount of the simple blue tea or the sweetened version, it will keep in the fridge for 2-3 days. If you want to have or serve it with lemon or lime juice, just add that when ready to drink.
Nutrition
Sodium: 24mg | Calcium: 14mg