What is a tea tonic?

Tea tonic is a drink made with icy cold tonic and brewed tea. The idea originated from coffee tonic; a refreshing drink made with a shot of espresso poured over cold tonic. To get a two layered look, make sure the tonic is fresh and icy cold and always pour tea straight onto the ice.

Tea tonic usually contains a caffeinated tea, so make sure to use a decaf tea for a caffeine-free drink.

What is the best tea for making tea tonic boba?

You can use any tea you want to make this drink. Earl grey is a wonderful classic choice that pairs extremely well with tonic and grape flavoured boba pearls. You can also use other types of black tea, both flavoured and pure. Stronger pure of flavoured green teas, dark oolongs, ripe pu’erh and flavoured shou mei white teas are all great choices. Choose teas you usually enjoy drinking.

Tonic is already sweet enough, and this drink doesn’t need any additional sweeteners. However, always brew the tea properly to avoid extreme bitterness or murkiness.

Some great teas to try:

• Assam black tea
• Mango flavoured black tea
• Coconut flavoured black tea
• Peach flavoured green tea
• Red robe oolong tea

Why adding popping boba?

Popping boba is a boba tea ingredient filled with fruit juices. When you bite into it, popping boba will burst, adding another delicious fruity note to tea tonic. These boba pearls are used for making fruit bobas rather than milk boba teas. They come in a whole range of flavours, such as peach, pineapple, lychee, grapes, mango etc. Popping boba doesn’t need to be cooked or washed and you can simply add them to any juice or drink.

Ingredients for making Tea Tonic Boba

Tonic: choose any tonic you want, as long as it’s freshly opened. Avoid using flat tonics. Alternatively, you can use a flavoured carbonated water too.  

Tea: make a stronger brew using 1 heaped teaspoon of tea leaves, and steep for 3-5 minutes, depending on the tea type. If you want to extract more flavour, add more tea leaves instead of steeping them longer.

Popping boba: They are usually available in smaller containers, enough for making three drinks. If you are using regular unflavoured black or green tea, choose your favourite flavour. If you are using flavoured teas, try to match the popping boba flavour with the flavour of tea. Grape flavoured pearls pair extremelly well with earl grey tea. Add popping boba before adding ice.

Ice: add lots of ice into tonic before adding tea. Set aside for a couple of minutes until your tonic is icy cold. While waiting, brew the tea to save time.

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Earl Grey Tea Tonic Boba

Super tasty tea tonic boba with grape popping pearls

Course Drinks

Keyword Black Tea, Earl Grey, Popping Boba

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• Kettle
• Serving glass

Ingredients

• 120 ml tonic or 1/3 glass
• 120 ml brewed tea or 1/3 glass
• 3 tablespoons of grape popping boba
• 1 heaped teaspoon Earl Grey tea or tea of your choice
• 150 ml water for making tea
• ice

Instructions

• Bring fresh water to a boil.
• Pour 120 ml of cold tonic into a serving glass.
• Add popping boba and lots of ice. Set aside.
• Steep 1 heaped teaspoon of tea leaves in freshly boiled water for 3-5 minutes.
• If needed, add more ice into a serving glass with tonic and popping boba. Slowly pour freshly boiled tea directly onto ice.
• Serve immediately. Add boba straw or a long-handled teaspoon.

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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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