Butterfly Pea Flower Syrup (3 Ingredients)

This vibrant blue syrup gets its color from caffeine-free butterfly pea flower tea. It’s simple to make with just 3 ingredients.

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Recipe Summary

• Butterfly pea flower syrup is a simple syrup (liquid sugar) that’s made with three ingredients: sugar, water, and butterfly pea flower tea.
• Butterfly pea flower tea is a caffeine-free infusion that gives this syrup a vegetal flavor and pretty blue color.
• The butterfly pea flower syrup can be used to sweeten and flavor drinks like iced tea and lemonade. The blue syrup turns purple when poured into lemonade.
• This recipe makes 1 cup of syrup. That’s enough to sweeten 8 drinks if you use 2 tablespoons for each glass.

RELATED: Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

Ingredient Notes

• Butterfly pea flower tea: Instead of loose tea, go for butterfly pea flowers in tea bags since they’re easier to use. You don’t need high quality tea to make this syrup.
• Sugar: Using white sugar preserves the bright blue color. You can use brown sugar, but it will muddle the color.
• Water: Filtered water is what I always recommend since it makes a better tasting syrup.

For full ingredients and detailed instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1: Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Simmer, then turn off heat, and steep. Stir to make sure sugar dissolves completely.

Step 2: Strain and pour syrup into an airtight container.

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Serving Suggestions

• Make butterfly pea flower iced tea by adding this syrup to black or green iced tea.
• Add sparkling water to butterfly pea flower syrup to make a flavored soda.
• Butterfly pea flower syrup can be used to sweeten cocktails.

RELATED: Butterfly Pea Flower Bubble Tea

Expert Tips

• Part of the appeal of butterfly pea flower tea is its ability to change colors whenever its pH level shifts. Adding it to lemonade will turn your drink purple.
• When making simple syrups, tea bags create far less mess and makes it easy to strain.
• This syrup will keep for 2 weeks in the fridge in an airtight container.

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Related

• Iced Butterfly Pea Flower Tea Latte
• Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Latte Bubble Tea
• Rose Syrup
• Lavender Syrup
• Hibiscus Syrup

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Butterfly Pea Flower Syrup

By: Jee Choe

This vibrant blue syrup gets its color from caffeine-free butterfly pea flower tea. It's simple to make with only 3 ingredients.

Prep Time: 2 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 7 minutes minutes

Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients 

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• ▢ ¾ cup water
• ▢ ¾ cup sugar
• ▢ 1 tea bag butterfly pea flower tea

Instructions 

• Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes.

  Stir to make sure sugar dissolves completely.
• Turn off the heat and let cool.
• Remove tea bag and pour syrup into an airtight container.

  Use a funnel to help pour neatly into the bottle. The syrup will keep for up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

Notes

• Using white sugar preserves the bright blue color. You can use brown sugar, but it will muddle the color.
• When making simple syrups, tea bags create far less mess and makes it easy to strain.
• This recipe makes 1 cup of syrup. That’s enough to sweeten 8 drinks if you use 2 tablespoons for each glass.

Nutrition

Calories: 72Carbohydrates: 19gFat: 0.1gSodium: 1mgPotassium: 0.4mgSugar: 19gCalcium: 1mgIron: 0.01mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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