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Color-Changing Butterfly Pea Flower Tea
08
Sep
Sep
MogoBlog MogoLicious Tasty Tip of the Day: A mood ring in a glass. The color changes to a glowy violet when you add lemon juice, like a drinkable mood ring. This magic liquid, it turns out, is a tea made from the butterfly pea flower, a plant native to Southeast Asia.
Color-Changing Butterfly Pea Flower Tea
Ingredients:
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- 1 tsp. per cup BlueChai Blue Tea
- Lemon Wedge
- Pitcher of boiling water
Instructions:
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- Add 1 teaspoon per cup to the bottom of a glass.
- Chop a lemon into wedges.
- Fill a pitcher with boiling water.
- Pour the water over the tea.
- Watch it combine. (Isn’t that crazy? It looks like straight-up blue food coloring.)
- Give the tea a stir,
- Let it steep for about four minutes (BlueChai recommends 3-5 minutes).
- Remove the tea leaves.
- Squeeze a lemon wedge into the glass.
- You can see the effect immediately.
Notes:
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- You really don’t need too much lemon to make it the most beautiful magenta-violet you’ve ever seen.
- Simply put, much like the way the color of hydrangeas are affected by the pH of the soil they grow in, if you mess with the pH of butterfly pea flower tea, it changes color as well.
- The flavor is a mild floral, cut by the citrus of both the lemongrass and the actual lemon. It’s caffeine-free, which means you can freak out your coworkers by sipping on something beautiful but insane-looking throughout the day. Seems like a win-win to me.
Yields: 1 MogoBox.com Mug with Attitude serving
From: https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/color-changing-butterfly-pea-flower-tea-is-a-mood-ring-in-a-glass
