Tapioca Pearls (Boba) Recipe with Brown Sugar or Fruit
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: https://www.honestfoodtalks.com/how-t...
To make brown sugar boba pearls, we make a sticky syrup from Muscovado (https://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 Recipe with/without Boba
For our bubble tea topping recipe without the starch, check out our recipe using agar agar powder: • Crystal Boba Recipe using Agar Agar Powder
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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