Color Flower Rice

Whether you want to add a pop of color to your plate or just have butterfly pea flowers around, you can easily make this beautifully hued rice, traditional to Southeast Asian cuisines. Butterfly pea flower is used to infuse it's natural blue color for rice. This flower is known as sangu poo in Tamil and Aparajita flower, widely in India.

Jump to: Ingredients Substitutions Serving suggestions Video Storage Top tip Recipe card Instructions Ingredients Butterfly pea flower can be fresh or dried. I used dry flowers, easily available online. Add dried Asian butterfly pea flowers to your rice to turn it a natural blue.

This ingredient is commonly used in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand). Plus, find out how to transform the blue colour to pastel purple to make 'unicorn rainbow' rice! Each bundle weighs 4.25 oz and, as a natural product, its dimensions may vary slightly from plant to plant.

The height ranges from 16" to 23", length from 14" to 16", and width from 10" to 12". Each case includes 20 carefully preserved bundles, offering both elegance and consistency in your arrangements. Blue rice is made by infusing rice with butterfly pea flowers or butterfly pea flower powder, which gives it a vibrant blue color.

Often, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves are also added for their aroma. Well this might be the dreamiest rice I've ever made! It gets its pastel blue hue from butterfly pea flowers. It has a subtle flavor and adds a pop of color to the dinner table.

I love serving it cool as a rice salad with tons of chopped veggies, fresh herbs, crunchy nuts and dressing. -chopped fresh veggies: cherry tomatoes, carrots, snap peas, cucumber -herbs: mint, basil, cilantro. Rice cooked with butterfly pea flower brew results in blue rice.

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The color is all natural, and comes from butterfly pea tea, which is just dried butterfly pea flowers. When steeped, they produce a rich royal blue colored liquid, that turns purple/magenta when combined with an acid like lemon juice. Once the color turns into a deep blue, strain the flowers out and set aside.

Rinse 2 cups of rice through a mesh sieve to get rid of the starch. Transfer the rice into a pot along with 1 cup of coconut milk, 1 cup of water, and the 1 / 2 cup of blue dye. Add a dash of salt and give it a quick stir.

Place pandan leaves on top of the rice.