Thai-Style Bubble Tea

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here's one of the recipes i use for bubble tea. i put

some of my recipe notes at the bottom.

 

Thai-Style Bubble Tea

 

2 cups Thai tea

1 1/3 cups sugar

1/2 cup mint leaves (optional)

1 1/2 cups tapioca pearls

milk

wide straws

 

The Tea: Place Thai tea into stainless tea filter and

place in a large pot with 8 cups gently boiling water.

Leave the filter handle out of water so you can easily

remove the tea later. Keep over medium heat for one

hour, then remove tea and fill pot with water to same

level you started with (8 cups). Let tea cool and pour

into a pitcher. You can leave in refrigerator for a

few days, if desired.

 

The Syrup: In a small saucepan combine sugar, mint

leaves and 4 cups water. The recipe still tastes great

if you omit the fresh mint. Bring to a boil and stir

until sugar is dissolved, then strain out the leaves

and place in a separate container. Refrigerate.

 

The Pearls: Start by bringing 12 cups water to a boil

in a large pot, then gently add tapioca pearls. Let

the pearls cook for 30 minutes, stirring often to keep

the pearls from sticking together. Remove from heat,

cover and let stand for another 30 minutes. Strain the

pearls and rinse with cool water, transfer to a

storage container and mix with about half of the

syrup. This allows the pearls to soak up the sweet

flavor and keeps them from sticking together. They

will keep in the refrigerator like this for about 12

hours.

 

Using a spoon, place pearls into serving glasses. The

pearls should fill 1/3 of the glass. Pour 2

tablespoons syrup over the pearls. Add more syrup if

you prefer a sweeter taste. In a separate shaker (or

glass), shake (or mix) equal parts of tea and milk

with ice. Pour the tea/milk mixture (not the ice) into

each glass and stir. Garnish with a sprig of fresh

mint leaves, and serve with jumbo straws that allow

the tapioca pearls to be sucked up as you drink.

 

 

my recipe notes:

 

* i don't have a tea filter, so i just boiled the

loose tea in the water and strained it through a fine

mesh strainer when it was done cooking. i only boiled

it for 30 minutes instead of a whole hour. it was

plenty strong. i may use less tea next time....2 cups

seemed like a lot.

 

* i didn't use mint in the syrup.

 

* i cooked the tapoica pearls for 30 minutes and they

were kind of " al dente " . next time i will cook them a

bit longer.

 

* the first time i assembled the drink, i used a

cocktail shaker. the second time, i just mixed all the

ingredients in the serving glass and omitted ice (it

had all been refrigerated and was cold) and it was

just fine.

 

* i didn't have straw that were wide enough, so i just

served the bubble tea with a spoon.

 

 

 

 

 

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