Homemade Hojicha Boba Pearls
Easy recipe for making tapioca pearls for boba tea at home
Servings: 4
Equipment
- saucepan
- Sifter
- bowl
Ingredients
- 70 grams of tapioca starch
- 30 grams of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of hojicha powder
- 50 ml of water
Instructions
- Sift tapioca starch and hojicha tea powder into a clean bowl. Mix well.
- Add water and sugar into a small saucepan. Stir until sugar dissolves andsmall bubbles start forming. Turn off the heat.
- Start adding flour and tea mixture while continuously stirring with thespoon or a wooden spatula until dough forms.
- Transform the dough onto a clean working surface and knead it until you geta fine texture, neither too sticky nor too dry.
- Take a very small piece of dough and make a pearl using your fingers. Theyshould be about 6-7mm in diameter. If you are making larger pearls, they willbe too big for boba straw. Place pearls on a baking paper. Repeat until you useup all the dough.
- Dust tapioca pearls with tapioca starch and let them dry for a couple ofhours or cook them immediately.