What is a fruity boba?

Until a decade ago, boba tea was still somewhat of a mystery. Today, it’s one of the most popular tea drinks worldwide. This doesn’t come as a surprise. Boba tea is unique, flavourful, chewy, and fun to drink. Traditional boba is made with tea, milk and tapioca pearls.

Unlike the traditional boba tea, fruity boba is made with fruit juice rather than milk. It’s lighter, often more refreshing, and just perfect for a hot summer day. Fruity boba often lacks the tea ingredient and contains juices and fruit powders instead.

Why Green Apple Boba?

Fruity bobas may be underestimated, but they are so much more than some sugary juice will a topping. This recipe will show you just how tasty a simple drink can be and why it’s definitely worth the effort.

This Green apple boba is super easy to make at home and incredibly delicious and refreshing. By using a homemade apple juice, your drink will have plenty of flavour that can’t be achieved with pre-made juices. If you ever made a homemade apple puree at home, you know exactly what we mean. Besides, you will avoid all preservatives and unnecessary ingredients, and you’ll be able to decide just how sweet you want it to be.

Ingredients for making Green Apple Boba

Green apples: This recipe is best with Granny Smith green apples with natural sourness, crispiness and light sweetness. Other types of green apples may be too tart (cooking apples) or too sweet (golden delicious).

Popping boba: Popping pearls are a great topping for juicy boba tea. They are not chewy like regular boba pearls, and a burst of juicy lychee flavour will add another flavour note to your apple boba tea. You can get Lychee popping pearls on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.

Sweetener: To keep the taste as fruity as possible, choose neutral, white granulated sugar. If you want a calorie-free option, Erythritol is a suitable substitute. Alternatively, stevia will work well too, but it will add additional flavour note.

Lemon juice: While this ingredient may look optional, it’s actually quite important. A few teaspoons of a freshly squeezed out lemon juice will intensify the sourness and keep apples green. This means you’ll end up with a beautiful bright yellow-green rather than a dark yellow drink.

Steps for making Green Apple Boba

Make an apple juice: To make an apple juice, you’ll need 150 grams of apples. This will equal 1-2 apples, depending on the size. Wash and peel them and chop into small chunks. Squeeze lemon juice over apple chunks. Simmer it on low heat only, as the juice will otherwise evaporate more quickly.

Assemble the drink: After making the green apple juice, the only thing you’ll need to do it to assemble the drink. Make sure to use lots of ice if your apple juice is still hot.

Additional step – add green tea

If you need a caffeine boost, add some green tea to your boba. Steep one teaspoon of green tea leaves in 100 ml of water for 3 minutes at 85 degrees Celsius. Stronger Gunpowder tea or lighter Mao Feng tea will both work well.  

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Green Apple Boba Recipe

Refreshing and Fruity Boba Tea

Course Drinks

Keyword Apple tea, Boba Tea, Caffeine free, Popping Boba

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• saucepan
• Cheesecloth
• Serving glass

Ingredients

• 150 grams of Granny Smith green apple washed, peeled and chopped
• 300 ml of water ends up with 200 of apple juice
• 2 teaspoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1-2 teaspoons sugar

Instructions

• Wash, peel and chop apples. Sprinkle them with lemon juice immediately.
• Simmer them in a small saucepan together with 300 ml of water for 20-30 minutes.
• Let it cool slightly to prevent burning yourself and strain using a cheesecloth. Cheesecloth is a better option than a kitchen strainer because you’ll be able to squeeze out as much juice as possible. You will end up with about 200 ml of apple juice. Add a sweetener into hot/warm tea so it dissolves easily.
• Fill a larger 300 ml glass with ice.
• Add apple juice. If you prefer extra sour flavour, you may add more lemon juice.
• Top up with lychee popping pearls.

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What is Caramel Apple Betty?

Caramel Apple Betty is an apple dessert topped with caramel custard. All apple desserts will have an apple flavour, but it’s the little things that make them unique. While apple teas are not at all uncommon, liquid apple desserts still are.

Apple Caramel Betty tea is indeed a real treat. It’s made with Ceylon black tea, freeze-dried apples, cinnamon, fenugreek and natural flavourings. This tea smells utterly delicious, like a scrumptious warming autumnal apple pie with nutty and caramel notes. Fenugreek is not a typical ingredient in apple teas, but once you try this tea, you will want to expect it in every apple pie tea – it gives a warming, slightly nutty, sugary notes that makes this tea truly stand out.

How to brew this tea?

This tea is best prepared in the standard way – by steeping one heaped teaspoon of tea leaves in a cup of boiling water for 3-5 minutes. It won’t get bitter even if you over-steep it, which is a significant benefit for tea drinkers that tend to forget they were making a cup of tea. This tea is delicious on its own. Flavour feels incredibly simple, effortless, but rich and incredibly true to a real apple pie.

Another great thing about this tea is that the Ceylon tea really shines through, with all other ingredients only enriching it, and not covering the base flavour. All of them accompany a light Ceylon black tea base perfectly. It’s lighter than a typical breakfast blend as Ceylon teas is often lighter and fresher than Assam teas, but if you like adding condiments, both sugar and milk are a brilliant choice. Or, even better, sweeten it with some caramel syrup.

Caramel Apple Betty is great for mornings and afternoons. It would be perfect for an autumnal afternoon tea party. This is a very forgiving tea. You can over-steep it, serve with different condiments or no condiments at all. Because of its natural flavour, its great for tea drink that love both flavoured and pure teas.

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What is Toffee Apple tea?

Toffee Apple tea is a flavoured black tea blend inspired by the ultimate autumn treat – toffee, candy or caramelised apples. The traditional toffee apples are fresh apples coated in caramelised sugar often mixed with red food colouring. They are so popular that they even have their own national day – October 31st. Toffee Apples are usually available in autumn, but they are easy to make at home too. However, making a cup of toffee apple flavoured tea and adding the right condiments may be just as delicious.

Toffee Apple black tea blend from The Tea Crew is a pretty and deliciously smelling blend of Ceylon black tea, apple pieces, cherries, coriander seeds, almonds and natural flavourings. It smells sweet and fresh, with deep sweet apple base notes. Since a good apple needs not only to be sweet, but fresh and crispy too, smooth and crisp Ceylon black tea is a brilliant choice for this blend.

The best thing about liquified autumn treats is that while they are full of flavour, they are also virtually calorie free. This tea doesn’t contain any added sugar, but since it’s a black tea, it contains caffeine.

How to brew this tea?

Use 1 heaped teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water and steep for 3-5 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius. First and foremost, this is a Ceylon black tea. It’s not an intensely flavoured blend, and the scent is lightly sweet, with deeper black tea notes. Toffee Apple is highly aromatic, but still light autumnal tea with hints of apples and sweetness. It’s not astringent or bitter and is great with no condiments.

For the ultimate experience, the best possible way to drink it is with 1 teaspoon of unsweetened condensed milk and ½ teaspoon of brown sugar. With a bit of creaminess and nutty sweetness, the result is a real liquified autumnal treat. It will still be low in calories, as adding ½ teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of condensed milk will add approximately 30 calories to this tea.

Toffee Apple is a very easy to drink tea great for tea drinkers that prefer lightly flavoured or pure teas, rather than strong flavours. It has a truly warm autumn feeling, but it’s not overpowering or heavy.

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Tea and fruits – which fresh fruits are the best?

We tried brewing simple, strong black tea with 6 different fresh fruits to see which ones give a great flavour, and which ones are better avoided.

This flavour test should give you an idea what to expect when brewing black tea with fresh fruits. It can’t tell you what pre-made blends with the same fruits taste like. Premade blends are made with dried fruits and usually many ingredients and flavourings.

1. Black tea with banana

Banana teas are steadily gaining in popularity over the last several years. While it may sound strange to give a banana flavour to tea, banana blends taste surprisingly good. But how does a simple black tea steeped with fresh banana slices taste like?

We added 3 slices and waited. First, the colour of the tea changed a little. It became a slightly less attractive, which may be discouraging. But the flavour changed for the better. Fresh banana slices added delicate banana flavour, and a honey-like sweetness to black tea. This would be a great fruit to add when steeping tea for making lattes and if you like adding honey to tea.

Yea or nay? Yea!

2. Black tea with apricot

Apricot teas are less popular than peach teas, which is a real shame. Apricots are usually more tart than peaches, but when ripe, they are super sweet and juicy. We added ½ of fresh apricot, thinly sliced. And just how nice it was! The colour turned to beautifully intense orange and apricots gave a nice acidity to black tea and light apricot flavour. This tea was a bit lighter on apricot flavour than expected, but it was quite nice. Steeping tea with fresh apricots would be great for flavouring black tea for tea drinkers that like hibiscus teas, sour fruit teas or lemon teas.

Yea or nay? Yea!

3. Black tea with blueberries

Blueberries are sort of classic. Among dozens of berries, they are one of the most popular choices for baking and making smoothies. We added some blueberries and waited. The scent was wonderful, just like a blueberry tea should be, but the flavour was delicate. Who might like it? Tea drinkers that enjoy pure and only lightly flavoured tea. To intensify the flavour, crush them before steeping them with tea.

Yea or nay? Yea!

4. Black tea with red currants

Red currants are not everyone’s cup of tea. They are pretty, but have a very unique acidic taste. They are less sweet than blackcurrants or blueberries, but sweeter than cranberries. When added to black tea, they change the colour and make it brighter and pretty, but the flavour is disappointing. They alter the flavour, and not really in a good way. There’s acidity, but the flavour is missing.

Yea or nay? Nay ☹

5. Black tea with apple

Apple tea is not only one of the most popular types of fruit tea – apple tea is the fruit tea. Many fruit teas contain dried apple pieces. Homemade apple and cinnamon teas are just as popular as a pre-made blends. But what do thin slices of fresh apple do to a black tea? They chance the colour to an orange-brown and give a dose of acidity and reduce astringency. However, it would taste better if the tea was simmered, rather than steeped, and enhanced with some cinnamon. Who would like it? Tea drinkers that like fruit and apple teas and like acidity in tea.

Yea or nay? In between.

6. Black tea with mango

Mango is a synonym for a tropical flavoured tea. Mangos are sweet, juicy, and super tasty. We had very high expectations from this one. Mango brightened the colour of tea, but not as much as apricots did. It did almost nothing to the flavour. Flavour was so disappointingly weak, especially since the mango was ripe, sweet and juicy. It only reduced astringency and added some undefined sweetness. To get a stronger flavour, you would need to use quite a lot of fruit.

Yea or nay? Nay ☹

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