Use natural food coloring

What beautiful flowers.

My grandma used to pick these bright, blue, delicate Telang flowers from her garden and use it to color quite a few things like fabrics and stuff, but she used it to color mainly food. I get mine outside a narrow grassy area at my neighborhood CIMB bank where it’s growing wild.

Back in the old days, women would cook one part sticky rice with plain water, while in another pot, they would have cooked another part sticky rice with bluish colored water. The water was previously soaked with the Telang flower petals and boiled gently for about 15 minutes to extract the colors. Once both the rice are done, they would just combined both the rice, gently stirring it together to create a two tone blue and white sticky rice dessert.

Some people add blueberries in their smoothies, turning it blue. I like to call my blue smoothies “A Very Smurfy Smoothie”. I don’t know why, but my kids think that name is just totally hilarious.

It would really be nice if more people used natural food coloring to color all the things around them, rather than using artificial coloring and food additives like calcium propionate.

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