Using milk tea powder, you would typically add a prescribed number of scoops of powder to your shaking vessel, along with some water. After sealing, you would shake the vessel quite aggressively and then pour it into a glass, along with some tapioca pearls, if you’d like.

Tapioca starch - If you don’t have tapioca starch, no worries. You can use plenty of substitutions. You can use cornstarch, but cut the amount called for in half. If you are using 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch, use ½ tablespoon of cornstarch. You can also use cassava flour, potato starch, or all-purpose flour in place of tapioca starch. Use 1:1 ratios for those.In this article, we’re going to answer any and all questions that you might have about lychee bubble tea. We cover everything from what it actually is at the most basic level, to what are the best ways to make it yourself.

These popping pearls will definitely excite you with the fun, sudden burst of Mango juice. | Image from kungfutea_plainfield The easiest way to make this drink is using fruit syrup. With the preservatives, a bottle of syrup will last you a long time. Here are our favorite fruit syrups.

Can You Add Milk to a Fruit Tea?

Peach bubble tea ingredients include syrup, tapioca pearls and green tea. However, there are a few variations you can use instead! Here is some more detail about each key ingredient! Peach The ice should be added only after you have fully prepared the taro drink – do not add the ice directly onto the hot taro mix or it will melt and dilute the drink (always add the 200ml of cold milk first). There is a debate on who actually invented boba tea. One story says the owner of the Chun Shui Tang tea room, a tea house in central Taiwan city Taichung, claimed he got the idea of serving cold tea when he noticed coffee being served cold while on a visit in Japan. Then one day, during a staff meeting, his product development manager poured some prepared tapioca balls into her drink and the very first boba tea was born. The other story is from another tea room, the Hanlin Tea Room of Tainan, the southern part of Taiwan, where the owner said he was inspired when he saw white tapiocas on sale in a local market. He decided to mix it with tea and created ‘pearl tea’. The other story claims that Tu Tsong-he, a teahouse owner in Tainan, Taiwan, was inspired to add white tapioca balls to his tea after seeing them in the market.

First and foremost, the drinking experience of bubble tea is like no other. You first puncture a wide mouthed straw through a plastic covering on top of the cup. Jellies– These are made from a coconut base and flavoring. They are available in fruit flavors, but if you’re feeling adventurous, you can also try coffee, aloe, or grass.I use premade, uncooked tapioca pearls. In a small saucepan, bring 2 cups of water to a boil on medium heat. Add the tapioca balls to the water and let them cook for about 10-15 minutes or until they float to the surface. Remove the tapioca balls from the water and transfer them to a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking process. Red beans– These beans are cooked in a sweet syrup and add a small amount of protein, plus additional sweetness and texture to your fruit bubble tea. This topping is popular in Asian countries. While the bubbles in the name of “bubble tea” really refer to the air bubbles formed by shaking up the drink, but most individuals now refer to the bubbles as the boba or pearls found in the beverage. There are several choices for this aspect of the drink. Generally, bubble tea isn’t all that bad for you. So long as you aren’t drinking 3 cups a day, every day of the week that is.

On a similar note, the popping pearls in fruit boba are made with seaweed extract and a calcium compound - which again has no gelatin. In the drink, the fruit flavor is usually created from a puree or syrup and thus are nearly always vegan. Keep in mind that these nutrients only account for the average boba tea. Many boba teas are prepared with pudding, yogurt, fruit, jellies, syrups, and more. If you want to learn more about the break down behind boba and what is inside of it, have a read on that article here. Share this with a friend or two if you thought this was interesting. Thanks for reading with us and remember to just talk about boba, duh! The chewy tapioca balls, or pearls, are the main ingredient that sets bubble tea apart from other drinks. While you can buy pre-made tapioca pearls at many grocery stores or Asian markets, making your own pearls can be a fun and rewarding experience. Non-dairy milks and creamers – for example soya or almond milk, are very popular in Boba tea drinks. Another good choice can be a coconut milk.

Here’s an example of how many calories you can save. Let’s say you don’t want any boba pearls in your bubble tea. You can drop the number of total calories in your drink by about 150-250 calories! The flour was then exported to Asia, where tapioca pudding was made from it. For centuries, tapioca pudding was a delicacy in South and Southeast Asia, but it was not the only starch-based pudding to gain popularity. Below you’ll find a comparison of 1 big bubble tea chain and 1 big coffee shop chain. You be the judge, does boba really have a lot of sugar?