Currylines – Caroline's

My constant and not very satisfactory endeavor to obtain natural coloring in my breads, has always led me on the hunt for no fail ingredients.

One such item is the Blue pea flower (Clitoria ternatea) which seems to be favoring everyone else with great results in their bakes and I have been in hot pursuit of this, in the hope that it will not let me down like many other ingredients have. For some unknown reason though, I have hitherto not been successful in managing to get hold of these flowers, though they are said to be quite accessible online etc.

Well out of the blue (no pun intended :-D), I was thrilled to receive a gift of these dried flowers along with a box of dried Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) flowers too, from my friend Akshay Luthria who runs the popular restaurant Street Storyss in Bangalore, India. We both also happened to visit a friend’s farm that same day and coincidentally she had the fresh blue pea flowers growing wild and also the regular large hibiscus flowers (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) which impart a deep red color just like the roselle.

Well after yearning for these for years, my desires seemed to have suddenly been fulfilled and in such abundance at that 😀

As we say in Hindi – Bhagwan jab deta hai tho chappad phaadke deta hai, which can be loosely translated as – When God decides to give you what you desire, he tears open the skies and showers you 😀

So let me now tear open my gifts and armed with my treasures, I will set out to attempt yet another of my sourdough (SD) loaves.

Did I succeed or did my ‘color jinx’ continue? Or did I get a ‘umm sort of satisfactory’ in between kind of result? Well let us read on to find out.

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