A hot cup of this colorful Butterfly Pea Latte will warm you up on a cold winter’s day and put a big smile on your face. It’s pretty and delicious and ready in just minutes!
This blue latte only needs two simple ingredients: plant-based coconut milk and dried butterfly pea flowers. That’s it!
Can’t find the flowers? Do not worry! You can also make this latte with ground butterfly pea powder. We’ll show you how to use one or the other in the recipe below.
Butterfly Pea is a bright deep blue flower found in South and Southeast Asia. Also called blue pea or Asian pigeon wings, it is praised in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for its health benefits.
The flowers are incredibly rich in blue pigments called anthocyanins, also powerful antioxidants. They promote healthy skin and hair and regulate blood sugar levels.
In Thai and Malay cuisine, butterfly pea flowers are used to brew soothing blue tea and as a natural food coloring in rice dishes and desserts. But these wonderful flowers are so versatile that you can use them in many other recipes.
Your local Asian grocery store should stock dried butterfly pea flowers, but you can easily find them online if they don’t.
As mentioned above, butterfly peas also come as a powder made from the ground up dried flowers.
It’s a fine blue-purple powder, also called “Blue Matcha” because it tastes grassy and earthy like matcha – but not as bitter. We have already used the powder in our butterfly pea smoothie and have been blown away by the results!
For this latte, follow our directions for soaking the butterfly pea flowers or dissolving the powder. And then serve the latte hot and covered with some foam. Yummy!
And if you’re looking for more latte recipes, we think you’ll like these ideas:
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