BUTTERFLY PEA FLOWER TEA - 4 WAYS ( blue tea, purple lemonade, blue rice, blue coconut pudding)
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In this video I am using the butterfly pea flowers in 4 ways to make blue tea, purple lemonade, rice (nasi kerabu ) and agar2 jelly. Hope you like it. Butterfly pea flower tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, a beverage made from a decoction of flowers of the clitoria ternatea plant. The most striking feature is the vivid deep blue color.
Derived from a plant that is common to most South East Asian countries butterfly pea flower tea has been brewed for centuries but only recently has been introduced to tea drinkers outside the indigenous area. Butterfly pea flower tea retains many of the medicinal properties of the clitoria ternatea as well as extracting the deep blue color of the petals that made the plant a popular dye as well as to add color to various food such as the rice dish Nasi Kerabu.
One of the aspects of the tea is the fact that the liquid changes color based on the PH level of the substance added to it, for instance adding lemon juice to the tea will turn it purple, turning a deeper shade of purple the more lemon juice is added. The flavor of the tea has been described as earthy and woody similar to a fine green tea.
A popular use of the tea is in cocktails where the showmanship of the making incorporates the instantaneous color change in front of the patron that ordered the drink.