Purple yam kheer with Butterfly pea flower
Purple yam kheer with Butterfly pea flower

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Purple yam kheer with Butterfly pea flower is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Purple yam kheer with Butterfly pea flower is something that I have loved my entire life.

Butterfly-pea flower tea commonly known as Blue Tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or tisane, beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the flower petals or even whole flower of the Clitoria ternatea plant. Purple Tea is made with Blue pea flowers - Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly pea has it's the origin in South Asia Clitoria Ternatea has been consumed for. Butterfly pea flower is called Sangu Pushpam or Sangu Poo in Tamil, Aparajita in Hindi and In our farm, butterfly pea flowers grow in abundance so I collect it everyday till I have enough flowers Though it sounds childish, I love to watch the color of the tea change from purple to beautiful pink.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook purple yam kheer with butterfly pea flower using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Purple yam kheer with Butterfly pea flower:
  1. Take 300 gms Purple yam/ Ratalu
  2. Take 200 gms Condensed milk (any brand)
  3. Get 1 litre milk (fullcream / fullfat preferred)
  4. Get 3 tsps vanilla extract/essence
  5. Get 2 tbsp + 2 tbsp Butterfly pea flower (dried)*
  6. Make ready 3 tbsp +3 tbsp hot /warm water to steep the tea
  7. Make ready For Garnishing
  8. Prepare As Required Edible flowers (dried/ fresh)- rose, marigold etc (optional)
  9. Get Some Almond slivers
  10. Prepare Some Pistachio slivers

I had never had it before but loved the natural purple color. Butterfly Pea Flower Sticky Rice & Mango - Classic Thai dessert made the Chiang Mai way, with Blue Pea Flower Extract for a Blue & White version A layered matcha lemonade that changes color from blue to purple with butterfly pea flower tea! Get the recipe and tips on how to make this fun drink. Fresh butterfly pea flower, clitoria ternatea on wooden plank.

Instructions to make Purple yam kheer with Butterfly pea flower:
  1. Wash, peel and grate the purple yam** in a pot with about 1.5 litres of water. After you finish grating,boil the yam for about 5-8 minutes,certain and throw the water and wash the yam in clean running tap water till the sliminess of the yam goes off. Now your yam is ready to be cooked with milk.
  2. In the meanwhile, steep the butterfly pea flower tea in two batches (2 tbsps each) in a glass tumbler with 3 tbsps of hot water for at least half an hour to an hour (more time the better the color will be extracted from the flower).
  3. Add the yam into a preboiled milk (preferably in a non-stick pot / vessel with enough space for the milk to rumble,boil and cook as required to cook kheer),strain and add the first batch of butterfly pea flower tea, add the vanilla extract/essence in between the cooking process and cook till the yam softens and gets cooked, it will approximately take 30 minutes (adjust the flame accordingly so that your kheer doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot and burn)
  4. Now lower the flame and add the condensed milk and the second batch of the steeped and strained butterfly pea flower tea and cook for another 10 minutes or so till the kheer thickens up again to the desired consistency.
  5. Once done, pour it in a serving bowl and garnish it as desired with almonds, pistachios and edible flowers (if any). Serve it warm or chilled.(The kheer taste even better chilled the next day so it's better to make a day in the and chill it).
  6. Note : 1. * If you don't have butterfly pea flower skip it or use any edible food color of your choice, if you desire. 2.** Wear disposal gloves while handling the raw Purple yam (as it itches), it almost has the same characteristics of taro roots /Kochu/ Arvi….but no problem once it's boiled and washed in running water and cooked. Bon appetit!!!!

Butterfly pea is an annual vine that is native to the land in southeast Asia near the equator. The pigment in the flowers comes from anthocyanins, and has long been widely used in Thai and Malaysian cuisines for blue or purple food coloring for butterfly pea sticky rice. Butterfly pea flower is rich in vitamin A, C and E, can boost immunity, promote skin elasticity and collagen, hence people in southeast Asia are taking it as ordinary drink. The anthocyanins contained in butterfly pea flower makes it blue. By steeping the flowers, this health blue drink could be used.

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