Tuesday, 23 August 2016

A Natural Food Dye

So happy my butterfly pea or blue pea vine is flowering everyday.
It is named clitoria ternatea and you can tell why by looking at the shape of the flower.  I prefer to address it in our local language "bunga telang".


I boil the flowers to extract the color and the liquid can be used to color plain rice or glutinous rice. Perhaps it may have some health benefits but I just like the color. For me the sight of blue rice conjures mouth watering images of curry. Not to mention various sweet treats made with glutinous rice.


This is a less common blue pea flower.
It has double petals and hence produces more color.


Smile for me, pretty lady....♡

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