COOKFICTION
Bantha milk is one of the first foods we see in Star Wars. I always wanted to try some, but was never satisfied with the recipes for it online.
"It's easy - just put blue food coloring in milk!" some would say. Or, "Put some blue Kool-Aid mix in milk! Voilà!"
The former was just...colored milk. And Kool-Aid in milk? That wasn't for me either (flavor-wise OR concept-wise). To each their own, of course. I'm just generally not a huge fan of artifical dyes in food.
After tirelessly experimenting with all kinds of natural coloring (most resulting in failure), I had a flash of insight.
"I'll try butterfly pea flowers," I thought. "That's a good trick."
The result was delicious, naturally-colored, healthy (the flowers are packed with antioxidants!), and looked exactly like the stuff in the movie.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
In this recipe, you can substitute maple syrup, honey, or another sweetener of your choice for the sugar syrup.
♦︎ Star Wars IV - A New Hope ♦︎ Star Wars II - Attack of the Clones ♦︎ Rogue One - A Star Wars Story ♦︎ Adventures in Wild Space - The Steal ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels - Spark of Rebellion ♦︎ Droids in Distress (book) ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels – Rise of the Old Masters ♦︎ Ezra's Duel with Danger ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels – Brothers of the Broken Horn (advertisement) ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels – Blood Sisters ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels – Legends of the Lasat ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels – Trials of the Darksaber ♦︎ Star Wars Rebels – Double Agent Droid ♦︎ Rogue One - Part I (comic) ♦︎ Reirin ♦︎ Beru Whitesun Lars ♦︎ We Don't Serve Their Kind Here ♦︎ The Legends of Luke Skywalker ♦︎ Join the Resistance - Escape from Vodran ♦︎
