Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

Butterfly Pea Flower Tea 🦋  This soothing, healing tea is made with butterfly pea flowers, lavender blossoms, and cinnamon. Butterfly pea flowers are full of cancer-fighting antioxidants that inhibit cancer growth, stimulate the immune function, and guard against cell damage.  It also benefits the mind, skin, hair, and digestive system.  This beautiful flower from Thailand has been used medicinally for centuries. It steeps to a brilliant blue color and with a squeeze of lemon the color will change before your eyes to a vivid purple or fuchsia. Lavender adds a calming, floral note that supports relaxation and healthy digestion, while cinnamon brings warmth, antioxidants, and additional anti-inflammatory benefits. Together, they create a cup that’s as restorative as it is beautiful.

Ingredients: 

1/4 cup butterfly pea flowers 

1 cinnamon stick 

1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers 

4 cups filtered water 

Optional: Lemon slices 

 

Directions: 

1. Boil 4 cups of filtered water with one cinnamon stick in an electric kettle or in a saucepan on the stove. 

2.  Remove from heat.  Fill a tea infuser with butterfly pea flowers and lavender flowers or if you do not have an infuser, you can put them directly in boiled water, cover, and let steep for 10 minutes. 

3. Press the flowers to extract the color.  Remove tea infuser or strain the tea with a mesh strainer and discard the flowers.  Add a squeeze of lemon or lime and the tea will magically turn from blue to a vivid purple or fuchsia color.