Popping Boba Recipe | Making Juicy Pearls for Bubble Tea

Learn how to make popping boba with our bursting pearls recipe using fruit juice, fruit puree, tea, coffee and even soda.

🍴Ingredients:
150 g fruit juice puree, tea, coffee or soda
5 g sodium alginate
50-100 ml distilled water or low calcium water (see our notes)
sugar optional
food colouring optional

Calcium salt solution to drop the balls into:
6 g calcium lactate
1 litre tap water
2 cups clean water for rinsing

📝 The key is to use distilled water or water with low calcium levels. Depending on your liquid density, you should vary the amount of you use. For thicker liquids like fruit juice and puree, we recommend using 100ml. On the other hand, for thinner liquids, like coffee and tea, we only use 50ml.

📝 You should be brewing the coffee and tea using distilled or bottled mineral water with a low calcium level. Similarly, you should do the same if you want to thin out the fruit juice or puree. In our video, we used one that has under 12 mg/litre of calcium. You can check it out by looking at the ingredients on the label.

🥣 Tools you’ll need for our popping pearls recipe:
1/4 tsp measuring spoon (to make pearls that will fit through a boba straw)
1 tsp or a pipette (https://amzn.to/4aSvrnT)

📝 We recommend using a pipette if you're making many of these. It's also great for control too.

👨🏼‍🍳 Head to our website for more cooking tips: https://www.honestfoodtalks.com/poppi...

You can use agar agar and oil to make popping boba without sodium alginate or calcium lactate. Here's our recipe:    • Crystal Boba Recipe using Agar Agar P...  

Timestamps
00:19 Ingredients
00:39 Mango popping boba
02:02 Tips to making it
02:29 Strawberry popping boba
02:50 Coffee caviar
03:13 Peach tea bursting boba
03:35 Soda popping pearls

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