Boba Bubble Tea Recipe

Have you ever wanted to learn How to Make Bubble Tea? Here you’ll find everything you need to know to make creamy, delicious, and surprisingly simple bubble tea right at home using simple ingredients like black tea, tapioca pearls, and sugar.

With shops selling this hip and trendy iced beverage on practically every street corner these days, I thought it would be fun to share everything I know about Bubble Tea with you guys.

Whether you’re new to bubble tea, or you drink it all the time, in this post you’ll find everything you need to know to make simple delicious homemade bubble milk tea at home. I love this version best because it isn’t too sweet, the ingredients are super basic, and it’s ready super fast.

Vanilla Bubble Tea With Coconut Milk

Invented in the 1980s, the exact story of who invented Bubble Tea is somewhat debated, however, it is believed that Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui of the Chun Shui Tang Tea Shop in Taichung, Taiwan, came up with the drink when she randomly poured fen yuan into her iced tea during a meeting in 1988.

Fast forward three decades and this discovery of milk tea mixed with tapioca balls have evolved into hundreds of different unique bubble tea flavor combinations. Bubble tea shops are seemingly everywhere these days (I know of at least three within two miles of my house) and the color varieties, thanks to all the different flavors (like green tea, strawberry, taro, and mango!) seem to keep getting cooler and cooler.

Boba pearls are made from partially cooked tapioca flour – the refined starch extracted from the cassava root. Boba is gluten-free and, in its natural state, flavorless. Loved for its chewy texture, Boba can be added to both hot and cold drinks including hot teas or smoothies.

At Home Boba Tea Recipe

Bring approximately 6 cups of water just to a boil and remove from heat. Stir in the sugar and add the tea bags(for this recipe, I added approximately 1 tablespoon of sugar per glass of bubble tea). Allow the tea to steep and come to room temperature.

If you’re in a hurry, you may either prepare the black tea ahead of time or transfer the steeping tea to the refrigerator to speed up the cooling process.

Approximately 15 minutes before you plan to serve your bubble tea, bring a small pot of water to a boil. Add the boba and stir well to prevent them from clumping and sticking together. Allow the boba to cook for approximately 5-7 minutes (they should be floating on the surface and super chewy).

Passion Fruit Bubble Tea

Grab four glasses (any glass will work, just make sure they’re large enough to hold approximately 2 cups of liquid) and divide the cooked pearls between them. Fill each glass with ice and pour approximately 1 to 1 1/2 cups of room temperature black tea into each. Add approximately 2-3 (or more) tablespoons of milk or half-and-half to each glass and stir well to combine.

Bubble tea – even this recipe with limited amounts of added sugar and no added food coloring – isn’t really healthy. Tapioca pearls offer no nutritional benefits and are filled with sugar. It’s best to enjoy this delicious drink in moderation.

This bubble tea recipe is gluten-free. Take care when ordering from a bubble tea shop as many of the flavors or additives may contain gluten.

Lychee Bubble Tea (lychee Green Tea Boba)

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Calories: 269 kcal | Carbohydrates: 67 g | Protein: 0 g | Fat: 0 g | Saturated Fat: 0 g | Cholesterol: 0 mg | Sodium: 0 mg | Fiber: 0 g | Sugar: 14 g | Calcium: 12 mg | Iron: 1 mg

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Boba Milk Tea Recipe (bubble Tea W/ Sea Salt Cream)

Chef Jessica Randhawa leads The Forked Spoon. A world traveler, Jessica developed her passion for culinary arts while adventuring. With her recipes making their way onto renowned platforms such as Women's Health, Daily Mail, Al Jazeera, and Fox News, she's marked her presence in the culinary world. Jessica's academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science from the University of California.Refreshing, perfectly sweet, and so delicious, bubble tea is the perfect drink any day of the year. Skip a trip to the bubble tea shop and make these surprisingly easy boba milk tea recipes at home!

The trick is to use store-bought tapioca balls (also known as boba) which are sold dried. All you need to do is boil water and cook them for a few minutes to plump them up. Yup, it’s that easy.

My secret to the best bubble tea is making the drink with warm tapioca balls, giving boba the perfect soft and chewy texture.

Mango Bubble Milk Tea

I learned this trick on a trip to South Korea where all bubble tea was served with very warm (almost hot) tapioca balls and it was amazingly good.

A lot of bubble tea shops use powdered tea and powdered milk, which doesn’t taste as fresh and delicious as using brewed tea and fresh milk products.

Bubble tea is an iced drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s. Over the years, it gained popularity in the United States.

Rose Boba (bubble) Tea

Bubble tea is also called boba, boba milk tea, and milk tea. The basic ingredients are tea, milk, ice, sugar, and tapioca balls. It’s not bubble tea without the tapioca balls.

The drink is served with a wide straw so that a few tapioca balls can be sipped with the tea. The tapioca balls should be chewed, not swallowed whole.

Black tea that has been brewed and cooled down flavors the drink. Store-bough tapioca balls is cooked in hot water to make plump and chewy.

Bubble Milk Tea (bubble Tea Recipe)

There’s no need for a matcha whisk to make this drink. Cold water and matcha are shaken together to get the matcha layer.

Jasmine green tea is a lightly floral and caffeinated drink. Milk, sugar, and boba are added into the drink to make it a bubble tea.

Most bubble tea shops use powdered tea and powdered milk to make their drinks but this homemade recipe uses real milk and brewed tea.

Boba Tea (bubble Tea)

With bubble tea, you don’t have to use the highest grade (and expensive) loose tea. Instead, make it with mess-free tea sachets and tea bags.

A sweet and refreshing drink, Thai bubble tea is great as is or when paired with spicy food. (The sweet and creamy drink helps with the heat.)

Evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk should be used to make it taste just like the Thai iced tea in Thai restaurants.

Matcha Boba Tea

A refreshing and sweet strawberry and green tea drink with boba, it’s made using homemade strawberry syrup but store-bought can also be used.

It’s easy to adjust the amount of caffeine this iced drink by adding another green tea bag or leaving it out completely.

This caffeine-free bubble tea is great with whole milk, which makes it nice and creamy, but any other kind of milk can be used.

Strawberry Milk Tea

Butterfly pea flower tea is an herbal tea and the deep blue colors of the flowers colors and flavors the water. It’s caffeine-free and also called blue tea.

Tea itself is good for you since it has antioxidants but bubble tea is made with sugar and milk, so it’s not really healthy.

Welcome! I'm a certified Tea Sommelier and a self-proclaimed bubble tea and iced tea master. I'm all about making tea EASY and DELICIOUS.Made with black tea, tapioca pearls, brown sugar, and sweetened condensed milk, this Boba Tea is sweet, creamy, and just perfect on hot summer days. No need to hunt down an expensive bubble tea shop – if you can boil water, you can make your boba milk tea at home!

How To Make Bubble Tea (boba Tea, 波霸奶茶/珍珠奶茶)

Boba tea seems to be the current It Drink, with shops popping up all around the country and more and more varieties being offered. And for good reason – I love sipping on bubble tea on hot summer days (or, honestly, any day). It’s a thirst-quencher and caffeine boost in one!

While there are many fancy varieties and flavors of boba tea these days, the recipe we’re sharing today is closer to the original boba milk tea. Strong black tea with just the right amount of rich, sweet cream.

Boba tea, also known as bubble tea, is the latest drink to become popular across the world – though it has a long history in Taiwan. In fact, stories say that the first boba tea originated in Taiwan in the 1980s when Ms. Lin Hsi Hui took the tapioca balls from her dessert and added them to her tea. It become a hit among the employees and the tea-room owner quickly added it to his menu.

Boba Tea Recipe

So, what exactly is in boba tea? While there are now many, many different variations traditional boba milk tea is made with black tea, tapioca pearls (aka “boba”), and milk or cream.

The balls in the tea are black tapioca pearls, which are soft and chewy, and made of starch. They are called boba, hence the