Butterfly Pea Flower Tea Matcha Lemonade

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Lemonade:

-250 mL (1 cup) water

-125 mL (1/2 cup) sugar

-60 mL (1/4 cup) lemon juice 

Butterfly Pea Flower Tea:

-10 mL (2 tsp) butterfly pea flowers

-250 mL (1 cup) water

Matcha:

-10 mL (2 tsp) matcha

-250 mL (1 cup) cold water

Instructions:

Make Lemonade:  Make simple syrup by adding sugar and water into a saucepan and bringing it to a boil. Lower heat to simmer until sugar has completely dissolved, about 3 minutes. Take off heat and let cool. Stir in lemon juice.

Make Butterfly Pea Flower Tea: Steeping butterfly pea flowers in hot water for 3-5 minutes. The longer you steep the flowers, the darker the blue the tea will be. Discard flowers. Let cool.

Make Matcha: Into a wide-mouth water bottle, pour in cold water then matcha. Close lid and shake for 10 seconds.

Assemble Drink: In two glass cups filled with ice, pour in the butterfly pea flower tea about a third of the way for each cup. Pour in the lemonade until it reached 2/3 of the cup, then finally top each cup with matcha. Stir before drinking.

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