Blue Butterfly Pea Jelly (Dessert)

Make this dessert and impress your guests, with a memory they'll never forget! One of the best things about this particular dessert is that it's really easy to eat and digest. With a small amount of ingredients you can make something like this truly spectacular.

Today, we want to show you how to use butterfly pea flowers to make a pretty and delicious blue jelly. It's a quick and easy dessert you can make ahead of time and serve your guests with some fancy toppings. We're sure everyone will love it!

All you need are three simple ingredients: butterfly pea flowers, a sweetener, and a gelling agent, like agar or gelatine powder. That's it!

The recipe is based on the basic jelly (or jello) dessert: sweetened and flavoured water jellified with gelatine.

We used butterfly pea flowers to make blue tea (also called blue pea tea) and sweetened it with sugar-free erythritol. Then, we cooked it with agar powder, and finally, we let the blue jelly set in the fridge in moulds.

Let's quickly take a look at these three ingredients.

Stevia is a herb that's sweet and used instead of sugar. It's much sweeter than sugar and better for you. As a rough calculation 1 teaspoon of stevia equals 1 cup of sugar.

Agar powder is a vegan alternative to gelatine that gets activated when you cook it and sets in the fridge when it cools down. If you want to use agar flakes or vegan gelatine, check our tips in the recipe below.

Butterfly pea flowers are beautiful blue flowers found in Southeast Asia.

In Thailand Butterfly Blue Pea Flower is used to make blue tea. But these wonderful flowers are widely used in many other recipes across Southeast Asia like drinks, sweets, desserts, and more.

When you steep butterfly pea flowers in hot water or milk, they release their deep blue pigments, giving a wonderful blue hue to your dishes. They taste earthy, grassy, and delicately floral — similar to matcha but sweeter.

Once ready, flip the blue pea jelly on serving plates and garnish it as you like it the most or follow our toppings ideas below. It's a light and fresh dessert that tastes sweet and floral and looks so pretty!

Step 3

• Once ready, gently loosen the jellies up from their moulds.
• If you are not using silicone moulds, run a silicone spatula along the edges of the jelly tin and push it all the way down to the bottom to create an air pocket.
• Then, carefully flip the jelly onto a dessert plate and serve.
• Your beautiful butterfly pea jelly is ready!
• You can garnish it with fresh or dried flowers, coconut flakes, chopped fruit, or crumbled cookies.
• And why not serve it alongside a scoop of ice cream?
• Mango sorbet or lavender ice-cream.

We give thanks to Foodaciously who have provided us with this recipe.

-Namaste.