Blue Coconut Drink
Delicious coconut water drink with basil seeds mixed with butterfly pea flower and cucumber water is a very cooling and refreshing drink to the body!
Ingredients
- 1 cup Coconut Water
- 10-12 pcs Butterfly Pea Flower fresh or dried (dried preferably)
- 2 pcs Cucumber small
- 1 tbsp Basil Seed
- 1 tbsp Sugar optional
- 1 tsp Lemon
- 1 cup Water
Instructions
- Soak basil seeds in the water for 1 hr.
- Soak butterfly pea flower in the hot water for 15-20 mins. You can use both fresh or dried flowers. Dried flower is preferable as a safer option.
- Get rid of the bitterness by thinly slice one end and rub against the cucumber.
- Pill the cucumber skin and grate the cucumber.
- Take a bowl for the mixture. Remove the flower and add the blue flower water.
- Using a cheesecloth squeeze the grated cucumber and add the cucumber water.
- Add the soaked basil seed.
- Add coconut water.
- Add sugar (optional). Add lemon and give a mix.
- Serve with Ice!
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Notes
Dried butterfly pea flower is safe than fresh. For dried one, dry the fresh flower in the sun and then store it.