Perfect Boba Tea Completely from Scratch (2 Ways)

look it's part of my job to show you that anything in the kitchen is possible and boba tea oh it's very possible okay so today we're making boba tea and no i don't just mean the flavor and then we're gonna go get tapioca pearls no no no we are making our own tapioca okay we're making them ourselves from scratch it's very very easy and honestly i'm surprised that more people don't do it because you have complete creative control i always get these questions like josh why should i even make it like why it's so much time and like it's difficult is there even a point uh well first off it's really not that hard second off you're being a little baby you can make any flavor exactly how you want the idea of being able to control the flavor however you want is the power that's all the power and i'd like to give you that power so with all that said let's make this shall we let's cut straight to the chase oh josh but boba pearls have to be hard i mean look at them they're just little men actually no they're super easy to make and they only require a grand total of four ingredients first step we're gonna make the pearls in a small sauce pot add a 30 cup or 78 milliliters of water a third cup or 65 grams of packed brown sugar i highly recommend going by grams here by the way you just gotta trust papa's intuition now heat that liquid to boiling then reduce the heat to low add half your tapioca starch and quickly mix it in for about six to eight seconds then turn off the heat and mix in the remaining half of your tapioca starch mix until thoroughly combined and it begins to form a dough then dump it out onto a work surface and knead it together until you get a beautifully smooth dough just a minute or so now as this dough cools it will firm up so you gotta move quickly now divide your dough into four equal pieces roll each piece into a super long rod that's about half an inch thick cut that log into small cubes like you see here and repeat with the rest then just roll these cubes into nice little balls because the dough is probably gonna start to firm up and cool down here it's always nice to have a helper to speed things up if your dough firms up you can give it a quick three second reheat in the microwave to make it pliable again now once you have a beautiful ocean of balls toss those in a bowl with more tapioca starch to coat toss them around then place them in a fine mesh sieve and shake off the excess to get tons of lightly starch-coated boba pearls at this point they'll cool and firm up quite a bit you can store these in an airtight container and freeze them pretty much indefinitely if you don't want to use them right away but we're using them right away so to cook your boba simply heat a medium pot of water over medium high heat until boiling then add your pearls to the water and boil for 30 minutes then cut the heat and let them rest in the hot water for another 20 to 25 minutes or until translucent and chewy now all those are cooking let's make our brown sugar syrup to a small sauce pot add one and a quarter cup or 250 grams of light brown sugar and six and a half tablespoons or 100 milliliters of water gently swirl that around to hydrate all the sugar with water now just heat that over medium heat until it's dissolved and begins to bubble then increase your heat to medium high and it'll start to boil pretty vigorously so as soon as it's reduced and you start to see large bubbles check it by pouring it onto a plate and if it's nice and syrupy cut the heat and that's your brown sugar syrup now drain your boba pearls in a fine mesh sieve then stir them into your sugar syrup along with one tablespoon or 19 grams of blackstrap molasses and those right there look like some sort of nightmare infinity pool but it's actually a beautiful brown sugar now as usual those balls will shrink a little as they cool and they'll become fully transparent as well okay the hardest part is over next up is the fun moment of choosing your tea we have two versions a traditional brown sugar milk tea and a matcha milk tea for the traditional you can really use any of your favorite black tea here we have three different kinds but i'm gonna go with earl grey because it's yummy to a small saucepan add two cups of whole milk or nut milk yes haha nut milk so funny now heat that over medium heat stirring occasionally until it hits around 162 fahrenheit then immediately remove it from the heat and mix in two tablespoons of loose leaf black tea let that steep for four to eight minutes or until it reaches your desired strength of flavor and strain the tea through a fine mesh trainer to give yourself an infused milk tea now be sure to cool that bad boy down either in the fridge or over an ice bath before using oh by the way you can also make a large batch of this keep it in the fridge for when you want it just pop ideas now to assemble our traditional milk tea simply spoon in as much or as little boba as you like into the bottom of a nice tall glass hit it with a spoonful of some of the syrup or to your taste then add some nice ice cubes always nice ice cubes then pour in your chilled milk tea add in a reusable stainless steel boba straw for the earth friendly flecks but before we taste and get these balls in our mouth let's quickly make a matcha version which is even easier snag yourself two and a half teaspoons or six grams of matcha powder and to that you're going to whisk in about 2 tablespoons or 30 milliliters of hot water it should make a liquidy paste the consistency of heavy cream but if not you can always add a touch more water now you have your matcha concentrate just get another long boy glass drop in your brown sugar boba along with some of its brown sugar syrup your ice cubes then top it with whole milk or yes your nut milk be sure to leave a little bit of room for your matcha concentrate and as you might expect pour your matcha right on top essentially insert your boba straw give it a nice stir and well with nothing left to do here i think it's time that we firmly grasp it and get to sucking the tail of two tea so we have a matcha and we have a regular or brown sugar if i should say that tastes exactly like boba tea i mean this this is great the milk is nice you can really taste the earl grey coming through obviously you can use other teas and then the brown sugar flavor comes through the boba is sweet it's chewy voluptuous i want to mention one thing you've ever gone to a bubble tea shop you bite into the boba and it's good but it's just like crusty on the inside these these are tendy wendy now the matcha version is the same thing but we added sort of like a matcha paste to just regular milk and i still added the brown sugar syrup because i wanted to see what it was gonna be like so okay yo this is the best one easily i've actually never had a matcha boba this is absolutely the moral of the story is if you want to go to a boba tea shop that's fine but if you've ever made it yourself you have complete and total control and uh it's made with like actual ingredients it's kind of a superior option you want to know what else is full of milky balls that you suck straight into your mouth for chewy goodness [Music] b-roll [Music] all right guys and that is it so we made our boba tea and you know what i was right shocking making it yourself really is honestly so so much better there are a lot of bobo shops out there that are very very good so i don't want to take a poopy on any of them at all absolutely go support your local boba places but you got to try making it yourself because the amount of flavor that you can put into it and doing it from completely whole ingredients instead of just powders is a big w but more specifically the green tea boba with the brown sugar pearls it is the most beautiful combination i've ever had in a boba tea so with all that said if you enjoyed this video or you learned something leave a like subscribe and i will see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Joshua Weissman

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Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021

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