Brown Sugar Boba Milk Tea
This trendy drink is not just for looks -- it's nutty, creamy, and slightly sweet. Save time and money by making your own brown sugar boba at home.
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Servings: 2
Equipment
- large jar
Ingredients
Milk Tea
- 5 bags black tea
- 3 cups water
- milk of your choice
Brown Sugar-Braised Boba
- 1 cup boba pearls
- 1 cup water
- ¼ cup muscovado sugar
Instructions
Steep the tea overnight
- The night before, fill a jar with water (about 3 cups) and add 5 black tea bags. Steep overnight in the fridge.
Cook the boba
- On the day of, fill a pot with water and bring to boil. Add boba. Maintain a rolling boil for 30 min, stirring frequently to keep the boba from sticking to each other.
- Rinse and drain the boba thoroughly. Place in a bowl of room temp water and let it sit for 20 min.
- In a pot, combine 1 cup water and 1/4 cup muscovado sugar. Stir frequently with medium heat for 5 min or until the sugar is fully dissolved.
- Add the boba to the syrup mixture. Maintain a low simmer for 10-20 min, stir frequently until the syrup becomes slightly thick. Test the consistency by taking a spoonful of syrup and turning your spoon sideways to let it fall back into the pot. If you tilt the spoon and it falls off slowly, it is ready. If it stays in place, it is too thick so add a little water. If it runs quickly, keep boiling until it becomes a little thicker.
- Remove boba/syrup mixture from heat.
To Serve
- Tilt the glass at an angle, and add boba to the top of the glass. The boba will then slide its way straight down to the bottom of the glass, making the tiger stripes. Bonus challenge: make the tiger stripes even better by rotating the glass as the boba slides down.
- Next add ice, then black tea, then milk. Tea to milk ratio is really a personal preference, but a good place to start is 1 cup black tea: 2 tbsp milk.
Notes
- The stronger the tea, the better! Milk tea has a lot of components that could water down the tea flavors. To ensure you can still taste the tea, steep overnight with multiple bags of tea of your choice.
- Stir. Frequently. We said it multiple times in the recipe, because it's important. You don't want your boba sticking to each other, do you?
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