Butterfly Pea Flower Moon Milk Tea

This recipe is actually for a drink called “Moon Milk.” It doesn’t contain any tea or coffee but kind of has a resemblance to a tea latte because it contains milk and spices.

Moon milk is actually designed to be a relaxing nighttime drink. It contains ashwagandha which has recently become very popular for relaxing and calming characteristics.

I LOVE a nice warm drink at night. Or morning. Or midday. I will drink a yummy warm drink anytime of the day.

But I really became interested in moon milk because it is known for being very soothing and similar to the “warm milk” sleep aid you might have been given as a kid.

What I loved about this recipe was it takes the warm milk drink and adds a few other nice flavors as well as ashwagandha so it feels nice and warm and cozy in your belly and sends you right off to a comfy sleep.

I drink moon milk fairly often just about a half hour before bed and its actually just even a nice little self care routine, as well as having very healthy qualities.

It takes about 5 minutes to make and its fun and easy to make it look pretty and as silly as it may sound, I feel like I get more out of it by adding cute things.

So I thought it would be fun to find a way to add some color without using food coloring. In comes Butterfly Pea Flowers!

Honestly anything that has butterfly and flower in the same sentence just sounds cute to me. So when I discovered these purplish blue little edible flowers I was dying to use them in things! I made a keto chocolate cake and used them as a garnish but was told they actually complimented the cake quite well!

Then I discovered they dye things quite effectively when steeped creating a pretty blue color! So I decided to add them to my moon milk.

In comes the recipe which is below:

Ingredients

1 cup almond or coconut milk

1 tablespoon butterfly pea flowers (can be found on Amazon!)

1 tablespoon monk fruit extract

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

3-4 cardamom pods

pinch of turmeric (make it a smaller pinch as it will affect the color!)

1/4 teaspoon ashwagandha (I use a dropper and do about 1 dropper however you can also buy powdered)

Milk frother (optional)

Mix all ingredients in a small saucepan. Simmer on low until the moon milk is a light blue color. Strain out butterfly pea flowers into your favorite cup.

Here you can froth the milk if you’d like or just sip and enjoy!

it’s so easy - ready in about 5 minutes and so so good!!! Also can be made without the butterfly pea flowers as well for a tasty nighttime drink sans color :)

If you try it tell me what you think!

Xoxo,

Claire