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!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1/4 cup dried butterfly pea flowers
- 2 cups water
- 2 glasses ice
- sugar or simple syrup or honey (to taste)
- lime juice or lemon juice (to taste)
Instructions
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
Continue to press the flowers for a few minutes or the color of the tea is dark enough.
- 4
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.
- 5
Fill two glasses with ice.
- 6
Pour the blue pea tea into the glasses.