Easy Homemade Tapioca Pearls

Easy Homemade Tapioca Pearls 

Prep Time: 3 hours 
Cook Time: 50 mins
Total Time: 3 hours 50 mins 
Servings: 6 Drinks 

Ingredients: 

Brown Sugar Pearls: 

• 50 g dark brown sugar ¼ cup ( can substitute for cane sugar) 

• 60 g water ¼ cup

• 100 g tapioca flour

Matcha Boba Pearls:

• 50 g white sugar ¼ cup

• 60 g water ¼ cup

• 5 g culinary grade matcha powder or butterfly pea powder

• 100 g tapioca flour sifted, for the matcha version

Method: 

Making the sugar syrup

1. Heat sugar + water in a small saucepan until it boils.(add food colouring now) 

2. Mix starch base

3. If making flavoured boba, mix tapioca flour with matcha

Form starter dough

1. Remove boiling syrup from heat.

2. Quickly whisk in 3–4 tbsp tapioca flour (or starch mix).

3. Return to the stove on low heat, whisk until it becomes thick and gelatinous (2–3 min).

Make full dough

1. Add the rest of the tapioca flour.

2. Turn out onto a clean surface, knead while hot until smooth, soft, and slightly tacky.

Shape pearls

1. Roll dough to ¼ inch thick. Cut into 1 cm squares.

2. Roll each piece into a ball, coat lightly with tapioca starch. (If the dough cracks, moisten with a little water.)