Tapioca Pearls (Boba) Recipe with Brown Sugar or Fruit

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Tapioca Pearls (Boba) Recipe with Brown Sugar or Fruit

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Learn how to make tapioca pearls or boba balls from scratch using tapioca starch, brown sugar and water. As we're not using artificial food colouring, the colours are only from dark brown sugar or natural food dyes like fruit.
The most common black boba pearls are made with a sweetener and black food colouring inside. Without the colouring, you'll end up with light brown golden boba. If you really want the colouring, you can add a few drops of black food colouring to our recipe.
We also made fruit versions using the following:
Mango puree for yellow
Strawberry puree for pink
Matcha powder for green
Blue pea flower powder for blue
Taro milk tea powder or ube sweet potato powder for purple
White tapioca pearls with coconut milk
Instead of fruit puree, you can also use fruit juice. By changing the cooking and cooling time in the ice bath, you can also get different textures based on your preference. For detailed instructions and more tips and tricks, head to our website for our full recipe write-up: www.honestfood...
To make brown sugar boba pearls, we make a sticky syrup from Muscovado (amzn.to/3wpzCsn) and coat these. These chewy boba toppings are perfect for brown sugar fresh milk or matcha milk tea.
Here are the steps to make pearls covered in sweet brown sugar syrup for milk tea:
• Brown Sugar Milk Tea R...
For our bubble tea topping recipe without the starch, check out our recipe using agar agar powder: • Crystal Boba Recipe us...
Timestamps for an easy step-by-step recipe breakdown:
00:14 Ingredients to make tapioca pearls
00:37 Boil water and dark brown sugar
00:49 Add tapioca starch
01:19 Knead the boba dough
01:30 Cut and roll into ball shapes
02:46 How to cook tapioca pearls
03:16 Ice bath
03:55 Using fruit puree
04:19 Using powders
04:38 Coconut milk or juice
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@honestfoodtalks 5 ай бұрын

How did yours turn out? Let us know if you have any questions and we'll try help out where we can 😊

@Beauty_N_Chaos 4 ай бұрын

@honestfoodtalks how long does this process usually take?

@honestfoodtalks 4 ай бұрын

@@Beauty_N_Chaos Combining the tapioca starch, sugar and water, and then making the dough on the stove top should only take about 5 minutes, but rolling the dough into small pearls is the most time-consuming bit. When we first started and was still figuring it out, it took us about 30-40 minutes to make 1 cup of handmade tapioca pearls. Now, it takes us about 20 minutes to roll them all out into small pearls (for 1 cup of pearls, by 1 person). Get a friend to help out the rolling! Hope that helps!

@Honeybee_Lipbalm Ай бұрын

can I use this recipe to make big boba pearls? Edit: never mind I watched the vid thanks for creating this! I wanna try it!

@Leah112184 3 ай бұрын

I’ve been contemplating doing homemade boba tea kits for Christmas gifts this year. Do you have a method for dehydrating the pearls to preserve them? And if so, are there different instructions for cooking them from a dehydrated state? What’s the shelf life? Thanks!

@honestfoodtalks 3 ай бұрын

The tapioca pearls we make usually last about 10-14 days before they start showing some signs of mould. Once we've made a batch, we usually leave them out on plates or trays in the open to air dry for a few hours. The pearls will start releasing some moisture over time, so you may see the first coating of tapioca flour around the pearls start to thin out. We usually will sprinkle and coat the pearls with more tapioca flour 1-2 more times during the course of the air-drying. We then simply put them in an airtight container and store in the dry cupboard of our pantry. They usually last for 10-14 days. But, if you were to keep them in vacuum-sealed bags, and also add silica gel packets in those, they would last much longer. When we want to cook the preserved pearls, we follow the same method as we would cook fresh pearls. We would cook them for 8-10 minutes* (adjust to the consistency you want) in boiling water, then continue gently simmering them for an additional 5-10 mins. Then, we add them to an ice bath for 1 minute before adding them to a drink. I think using a food dehydrator should help improve the shelf life even more 🧐 but I can't 100% recommend it as we've not done it ourselves. We don't have a food dehydrator to tinker with at the moment. Boba tea kits as Xmas gifts sound wonderful btw 😊

@Chizzyyy758 23 күн бұрын

Could you use corn starch in place of tapioca starch?

@honestfoodtalks 21 күн бұрын

No, tapioca starch is the main ingredient. Otherwise it will not be the same. Sorry!

@Honeybee_Lipbalm Ай бұрын

I’m making mango flavour do I put the sugar with the tapioca starch I’m confused

@familyc3026 4 ай бұрын

For the strawberry and mango flavors, is 2 tablespoons water added to blender to puree? Do you heat up the fruit puree first before adding tapioca starch?

@honestfoodtalks 4 ай бұрын

Yes, and yes. We add the water to the blender as it helps with the blending. Similar to the regular brown sugar version, you want to heat up and bring the fruit puree mixture (fruits + water + sugar) to a boil first before adding the tapioca starch. 😊 thanks for the question!

@familyc3026 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your response. But I still find there is confusion and unclear of this video and the written recipe on the website. The written recipe indicates of using 3 tablespoons (45ml)of water but here is 2 tablespoons. Another contradiction is, water is added into a pot rather than puréing with fruit in the written recipe. So which step is correct ? When are you supposed to add in the sugar?

@honestfoodtalks 4 ай бұрын

Please use 2 tbsp to start with when you blend the fruit with water. Sometimes the fruit contains a lot of water content, but at times they are not as juicy. So, start with 2 tbsp, but if you find it too thick, then you can add another tablespoon of water when heating up the puree in the pot. For the sugar, please add them to the pot and dissolve them in the puree after blending. If you add the sugar when you blend the fruit, you may lose some of the sugar when you’re filtering out the fibrous clumps. Thank you for pointing those out for us to improve 😊 we’ll make sure to edit the article for clarity

@Honeybee_Lipbalm Ай бұрын

@@honestfoodtalksso I don’t add extra water to the purée when dissolving sugar?

@ering1107 14 күн бұрын

@@Honeybee_Lipbalm Oh my gosh she said add water to the puree, THEN put it in a pot and cook it with sugar. That's your brown sugar replacement. It's not that hard.