How to Make Bubble Tea at Home

What you need

• Tea: green or jasmine for fruit teas, oolong for milk tea. Tea bags for bubble tea.
• Flavour: a bubble tea syrup for fruit teas, or a milk tea powder for creamy drinks.
• One topping: popping boba (no cooking) or tapioca pearls (cooked).
• Ice, a cup and a wide straw so the topping comes up with the drink.

Fruit bubble tea, step by step

1. Steep one tea bag in 150 to 200ml of boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes, then let it cool.
2. Stir in about 50g of syrup. That is 1 part syrup to 5 parts tea; shake the syrup bottle first.
3. Spoon 40 to 50g of popping boba into the cup.
4. Fill with ice, pour over the tea and stir.

Milk tea, step by step

1. Mix 1 part milk tea powder to 7 parts hot water or milk until it dissolves.
2. Add cooked tapioca pearls to the cup, about 40g dry per drink.
3. Fill with ice and pour over the milk tea.

Our milk tea powders contain no dairy, so the milk can be dairy or plant.

The easy way: a kit

A bubble tea kit puts all of this in one box. The 12-drink kits come with syrups or powders, three pots of popping boba, tapioca pearls, tea bags, reusable cups and bamboo straws. See bubble tea kits.

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