Lungwort is one of the favorite ingredients for many housewives when cooking because of its beautiful natural color. This type of flower grows all year round and is used to create colors for dishes. When using lungwort, you can create many attractive dishes such as lungwort sticky rice, lungwort tea, lungwort bread, lungwort mousse cake.
Normally, people boil or soak the lungwort in hot water to get the desired color. Especially, you can also adjust the pH level of the combined ingredients to create different colors such as pink, purple, green.
Lungwort is also an ingredient with high content of vitamin A, E, C, so it has many health benefits such as protecting the liver, preventing hair loss, improving eyesight, enhancing the immune system, cooling and detoxifying the body.
Although it has many good uses, when using lungwort to make tea or cook, you need to pay attention to the following points:
1. When making tea from lungwort, you should not use water that is too hot but instead use water at about 75°C. The reason is that excessively hot water can reduce the flavor of the tea, making it lose its original taste. In addition, excessively hot water can also have serious effects on the mouth and digestive system of the users.
2. Pregnant women, women during menstruation, and people with low blood pressure should not use lungwort.
3. You should also not use too much lungwort in one day to avoid affecting your health.
In addition to using lungwort to cook sticky rice, make cakes or brew tea, you can also learn how to make lungwort milk with this simple, easy-to-make and easy-to-drink recipe
1.1. Ingredients for making lungwort milk
– Lungwort flowers: From 5 to 10 blossoms
– Milk: 300 ml
– Sugar, boiling water, ice
1.2. How to make lungwort milk
Step 1: Prepare the ingredients
– After buying lungwort flowers, put them in a clean cup. Then, pour boiling water at about 75°C into the cup and soak for 10 minutes.
– Use a strainer to remove the dry flower residue and collect the lungwort water.
Step 2: Mix with milk
– Put sugar in a clean cup and slowly add fresh milk. Stir well to dissolve the sugar, then add ice to the cup.
– Depending on your preference and taste, you can add different toppings to the cup such as tapioca pearls, aloe vera, jelly…
– Slowly pour the lungwort water into the cup and stir well to give the milk a more appealing color.
