Butterfly Pea Flower Ice Powder

Name: Butterfly Pea Flower Ice Powder
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 10g Butterfly Pea Flower; 500g Butterfly Pea Flower Water; 10g White sugar; 10g Ice powder; 1 piece lemon; Some Wolfberry brown sugar water

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4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h 30m

Serving

1

Butterfly pea flower, also known as blue butterfly, is rich in vitamins A, C and E, which can improve immunity, help and promote skin elasticity and collagen production. People in Southeast Asian countries often use it to make tea. Butterfly pea flowers contain natural anthocyanins. After drying, soak in water. The water turns blue. Adding lemon juice will turn it into purple. It can be used as a food coloring agent or cocktail.
In the peak season of ice powder in summer, butterfly pea flowers are used to make ice powder. The color is beautiful and the taste is super good!

Ingredients

Butterfly Pea Flower Ice Powder

1. Butterfly pea flower is a small blue dried flower that is often used in baking.
Wash butterfly pea flowers once with water to wash off the dust

2. Put it in a kettle, add boiling water, and soak for about 20 minutes.
Decide the soaking time according to your favorite color.
500 grams more water

3. After the butterfly pea flower has fully released its color, filter out 500 grams of butterfly pea flower water

4. Add 10 grams of sugar to taste, add ice powder after the water is boiled.
Stir quickly until the ice powder melts.

5. Then pour the boiled water in 2 bowls.
In one of the bowls, add a few drops of lemon juice and the color will change from blue to purple.
There are natural anthocyanins in butterfly pea flowers. Soak butterfly pea flowers in water to form a blue juice first. Add lemon juice soda water, and the blue juice slowly turns purple. Anthocyanin will turn purple when it meets citric acid, if you add more, it will turn red