Wonderful Color: Matcha Lemonade

 Butterfly Pea Flower Matcha Lemonade

A pretty, color-changing layered iced matcha green tea lemonade made with butterfly pea flowers that turns the drink from blue to purple. 

Butterfly pea flowers: comes from a plant in Southeast Asia and it’s been used there for centuries to add a bright blue color to food like rice and it’s steeped in water for drinking as an herbal tea.

Butterfly pea tea isn’t technically a tea, but an infusion. For something to be a true tea, the leaves must come from a different plant, the camellia sinensis. Only leaves from the camellia sinensis is real tea.

To make butterfly pea flower tea, the flowers with its bright blue petals are steeped in hot water to create a vibrant blue color. Honey or sweeteners can be added to the drink and it can be prepared hot or cold.

The fun color-changing part of the drink is from the butterfly pea flowers. The flowers are a vibrant deep blue when steeped in hot water but when lemon is added, it changes color to a jewel-tone purple.

The more lemon juice is added, the more purple the tea will become.

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