Classic Boba Tea Recipe (Homemade Bubble Tea 5 Ways)

Learn how to make bubble tea from scratch following our mix of black tea to get boba shop quality results at home.
Our recipe will make 1 cup (approx 250ml-300ml). But depending on how much ice and tapioca pearls you add, you might get some leftover drink base. Our favourite boba ratio to use is 200ml loose leaf base, 3tbsp milk, 3tbsp simple syrup, 4tbsp ice, 3 tbsp tapioca pearls.
🍴Simple syrup ingredients:
3 tbsp white sugar
3 tbsp water
🍴Tapioca pearls ingredients:
50g Tapioca starch
45ml Water
25g Brown sugar
📝 You’ll make 2-3 servings with these measurements. This is about 2-3 tbsp for each serving. For more details, see our video recipe: • Tapioca Pearls (Boba) ...
🍴Classic milk tea base ingredients using loose leaf:
200ml hot water (around 85-90 degrees, depending on the quality of loose leaf)
4g Assam, 1g Ceylon, 1g Oolong (alternatively use 3 black tea bags)
📝 Most recipes will tell you to use Assam (which isn’t wrong!) but to get close to the shops, you’ll need to use a strong brewed, blend of black loose leaf. Otherwise it’ll taste more similar to a sweetened British cuppa (at least to us).
The secret loose leaf mix we found to get close to our favourite shop is Assam, Ceylon and Oolong. Of course, every boba shop will have a different blend (and use varying quality of blends) so feel free to use these as a base to figure a ratio that works for you.
👨🏼‍🍳 Head to our website to see the ratios to make a less caffeinated, more chocolatey, or a stronger, more bitter brew: www.honestfoodtalks.com/how-t...
At the end of our video, we also show you how to make fruity bubble tea using mango or strawberry. We added in an earthy sweet drink using matcha powder and finally, how to use generic milk tea powders to make instant boba at home.
Also try out our other recipes:
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• Crystal Boba Recipe us...
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:29 Make tapioca pearls
01:27 Cook boba pearls
02:18 Classic milk tea base
03:24 Matcha bubble tea
04:01 Taro milk tea
04:34 Pink strawberry bubble tea
05:04 Mango boba
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[@ruizasri]

Fresh taro 🍠❤🧋

[@annarice6111]

Ube 😊

[@familyc3026]

How should you store the uncooked boba pearls? I didn’t hear you talk about how to get different texture of tapioca pearls based on the different cooking time as you mentioned in the beginning of the video.

[@honestfoodtalks]

Heya! You're probably referring to our other video on how to make tapioca pearls from scratch here: ua-cam.com/video/mGD7AA5Jp6g/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Happy boba making ☺️

[@zakassaf502]

So the tea base is only used for one drink? It just surprises me that Most of these flavors dont even use actual tea in their recipes 🤔

[@honestfoodtalks]

Yes, that’s correct - the tea base is for making the regular (most popular) bubble tea flavour out there. With the tea base, you can mix and match with many different toppings, and also combine it with other flavours if you want to. 😊
The other flavours are also popular, but they don’t necessarily contain the regular tea base. For example, you can make the Strawberry milk (shown in the video) which does not contain tea, OR, make Strawberry milk tea which does contain tea. For the latter, you can use the regular tea base as the tea.
It’s really up to you to customise and have fun with 😄 hope you enjoy mixing and matching

[@zakassaf502]

@honestfoodtalks thank you so much 😁 I just recently got a lot of bubble tea supply, and I'm trying all sorts of combinations in order to get the best taste. By the way that mango Boba looked spectacular 😋

[@honestfoodtalks]

Aww thanks ☺️ enjoy making your own boba concoctions!