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Handmade Blue Noodles using Butterfly Pea Tea

This noodle recipe uses the Butterfly Pea Tea to give the noodles a nice blue colour. However you can replace the tea with water and use the same recipe to create normal noodles. These do take a little effort with the kneading but it is really worth it. You can also cut the noodles to whatever width you like.
Servings 4 servings
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

Blue Tea

  • 2 Butterfly Pea Tea Bags (Each bag contains 16 flowers)
  • 120 ml Boiled Water (Only use 90ml)

Noodles

  • 90 ml Blue tea (If you don't have tea, you could just use water, same as blue tea 45%)
  • 200 g Plain flour(100%)
  • 4 g Salt
  • Cornflour for dusting the dough

Instructions

  • Make the blue tea using 2 tea bags to 120ml water. Pour on the freshly boiled water and allow to steep for around 15 minutes, this will produce a really good blue colour.
  • Using a large mixing bowl, add the flour & salt and make a small well in the middle. Pour in 90ml of the blue tea.
    Add the blue tea into the flour
  • Using chopsticks, mix the flour and tea until small flakes of dough form. Next start to use your hands to press all the flour together. If you cannot press all the mixture together because it's too dry, add a little more tea. If the dough becomes too wet, add more flour. We are making a hard dough.
    Make a lot of small flakes
  • Press all flour together
  • Once all the mixture has come together and all the flour has gone, cover with cling film (or a tea towel) then rest it for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes start to knead it for 15 minutes or until it becomes very smooth, the longer you knead the dough the chewier the noodles will become. As we are making a hard dough, you could could knead for 5 minutes, then rest for 10 minutes and repeat this 6 times. After kneading put it back into the bowl and rest it for one hour.
    knead the dough
  • smooth dough
  • Once rested, dust a surface with some cornflour and turn out the dough. Dust the dough with cornflour too. Next using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a square shape. You can always roll the dough around the pin and roll, this will help you make the dough thinner. Try and get the same thickness all around.
    how to roll the dough
  • Roll the dough into square
  • After rolling, dust with some cornflower on to top and fold the dough into 3 as pictured. Then use a knife to cut it around 0.5cm.
    fell it
  • Once you finish cutting, open it, and dust more cornflower, to make sure noodles will not stick together.
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  • Use the noodles however you like, below I have created a simple sauce using: 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil 1 Tbsp Sesame Paste 1 Pinch of Salt and White Pepper 1 Tsp Grated Garlic 1 Green Onion Finely Chopped 1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce 1 Tsp Sugar 2 Tbsp Boiled Water You can find how to make the soy braised soft boiled eggs here or you could use
    home make noodle
Course: Main, Sides
Cuisine: Taiwanese
Keyword: butterfly pea tea, noodles