Boba Tea

Ingredients

• Boba
• 1 cup + 1 teaspoon tapioca flour
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
• Boba Tea
• 2 tea bags
• ¼ cup boba
• Ice cubes as required
• Chilled milk as required
• Blue Pea Boba
• 1 cup blue pea water
• ¼ cup castor sugar
• ¼ cup boba
• Ice cubes as required
• Lemon slices as required
• Drinking soda as required

Method

1. For boba, heat 3½ tablespoons water in a deep pan, add 2 tablespoons brown sugar and cook until the sugar dissolves. Add 1 teaspoon tapioca flour, mix well and cook for 2-3 minutes. Take the pan off the heat.
2. Add cocoa powder and ½ cup tapioca flour and knead into a soft dough. Divide the mixture into small equal portions and roll into balls. Dust them in ½ cup tapioca flour.
3. Boil sufficient water in a deep non-stick pan, add the tapioca pearls and cook on medium heat for 20 minutes. Switch off the heat and set aside for 30 minutes in the same liquid.
4. Heat a pan. Strain the pearls into it, add ¼ cup water and 2 tablespoons brown sugar and cook on medium heat for 5 minutes. Transfer into a bowl and allow to cool.
5. Dip tea bags in 1 cup hot water and set aside for 5-10 minutes.
6. Heat blue pea water in a shallow pan, add castor sugar and cook until it coats the back of the spoon. Allow to cool.
7. Transfer ¼ cup boba into a serving glass, add the tea decoction, ice cubes and fill up the glass with chilled milk. Serve.
8. Transfer ¼ cup boba into another serving glass, add the blue pea syrup, ice cubes, lemon slices and fill up the glass with drinking soda and serve.