Taiwanese Dessert - Boba Pearls
Taiwanese Dessert - Boba Pearls

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, taiwanese dessert - boba pearls. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, or boba) (Chinese: 珍珠奶茶; pinyin: zhēn zhū nǎi chá, 波霸奶茶; bō bà nǎi chá; 泡泡茶; pào pào chá). Colorful and Fruity Boba Pearls could be the next Unicorn Boba Pearl Beverage! Previously I did a video on how to make tapioca boba pearls at home and some have been telling me that their dough end up becoming too stick and could not work on the dough to roll them.

Taiwanese Dessert - Boba Pearls is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Taiwanese Dessert - Boba Pearls is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook taiwanese dessert - boba pearls using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Taiwanese Dessert - Boba Pearls:
  1. Make ready Boba Pearls
  2. Prepare 1 cup or about 135 gr tapioca starch + 2 more tbsp for dusting and coating
  3. Get 6 tbsp water/90 ml water
  4. Prepare 60 gr brown sugar
  5. Take For the syrup:
  6. Get 1 cup brown sugar
  7. Make ready 1 brown sugar slab
  8. Make ready 100 ml water
  9. Make ready Taro Balls
  10. Take 300 gr Sweet potatoes(purple/yellow)/yam/pumpkin
  11. Make ready 50 gr Sugar
  12. Take 150 gr Tapioca flour

This is a traditional Taiwanese dessert made using taro. You will find it in most of the towns in China. The ice cream is flavored with black sugar syrup and a few toppings which may be anything form taro balls, tapioca pearls and aiyu jelly among others. Taiwanese Bubble Tea. featured in Delicious Asian Drinks.

Steps to make Taiwanese Dessert - Boba Pearls:
  1. In a small pot, slightly heat the water and dissolve brown sugar over slowest fire (to avoid too much water lost). Make sure the sugar is dissolved. Heat the liquid to a boiling and then use slowest fire. Now, add 1/2 of the tapioca starch in and mix quickly (Count 6 to 7seconds). Turn off the fire or remove from fire and add the remaining 1/2 of the tapioca starch. Mix until gathered. Quick during the process.
  2. Place the remaining flour on an operation board. Transfer the smooth paste in and knead into a dough with the help of a scraper blade. At first, it might be slightly sticky. Continue kneading until smooth. Be quick during the process. The dough becomes hard to control when cool down completely.
  3. Divide the dough into 4 portions. Remember to cover the other three with plastic bag. Then shape one portion into a long log (around 1.5 cm in diameter), cut the log into small cubes.
  4. Round each small squares to small balls (be patient and do not require prefect roundness).
  5. In a large plate, spread some flour and coat each ball with enough flour to avoid sticking to each other. After finish all of the pearls, shift the extra flour off. You can now package in air-tight bags and freeze for later use.
  6. For the syrup: In a small pot, melt 2 slices of brown sugar slab and 1cup brown sugar with 100ml water in a small pot. Heat until there are large bubbles. Or you can simply use brown sugar syrup.
  7. Bring a large pot of water (at least 6 times of the volume of the pearls) and cook the pears for 20 to 30 minutes. Then transfer the balls into a cold water (they shrink to original size immediately). Wash under running water. Drain and mix with 2 tablespoons of brown sugar syrup or honey (or sugar) to avoid sticky together.
  8. For the taro ball: steam the sweet potatoes until soft. Once it is cooked and warm, mash it and mix with sugar. Mix with tapioca flour (little by little)
  9. Transfer it to the floured surface and knead until it forms to a non-sticky dough.
  10. Take a portion of dough, roll it out into a log about 2-cm in diameter. Cut them into pieces, dust the cut pieces generously with tapioca flour (so they won’t stick to one another).
  11. To cook taro balls, bring a pot of water to boil, add taro balls and keep stirring (so that they won’t stick). Continue boiling for another 2-3 min after taro balls float on the surface. Transfer drained taro balls to a bowl of ice water to cool down (this way they’ll be chewier
  12. To serve: arrange boba pearls, taro balls, jelly (cook as per instruction) and ice cream 🍨. You can add grassjelly, sweetened red bean, milk, drizzle with honey etc.

Trying to re-create the popular desserts. Using a very cheap ingredients but the process was quite tedious 😄 but everyone likes it. Then, there was the Boba Pearl Toastie. This was our first step into the wild side of boba food creations. It's two slices of toast with a thick layer of We got more pearls with each bite than with the pancakes, since they were trapped in the bread.

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