Bubble Tea Tapioca Balls

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Video Transcript

(soft music) – Hey everyone, this is Inga. It is Sunday today. It’s a beautiful day outside. I’m at home, in my kitchen. A bunch of you have asked me how I make my own boba at home, so I figured today would be a great day to kind of show you guys how I do it. I’m thinking of making a brown sugar boba milk, because recently it’s just been blowing up in New York. I had the chance to go to OG location in Taiwan. Apparently, it’s shut down now, but basically, it’s (speaks foreign language). And brown sugar boba milk is pretty just brown sugar, boba, and milk. There’s no tea involved, so it’s really Just these really sweet, really indulgent drinks. It’s actually fairly simple to make it at home. Today, I am going to make my own version of it, so then I can just enjoy it in the comforts of my own home and hopefully you can too. Let’s get started on the boba first. There’s really only three ingredients. Tapioca starch, there’s water, and then there is brown sugar. And you just combine these together. Taking it off the heat to combine it with some tapioca starch. Put it back on and let it slowly cook to thicken. It’s almost like thick mochi sauce. We are now good to add the rest of the starch and combine. You don’t wanna over mix it, but then you also wanna make sure that it’s like combined. Pouring it out. And now we knead. You just wanna keep on kneading this while it still retains it’s heat. Combine it all, combine it all. (light music) There we go. This could be one giant boba ball. But we’re not going that today, so I’m gonna roll this out now and make this into little boba balls. I wanna make sure they retain their moisture while we work on this one. (light music) This feels really smooth right now. Now we can start chopping it up. Now roll it up like so. Our first three boba balls. Now we’re just gonna keep going. This is definitely the most time consuming process. There’s a hack that somebody did where they used a straw to kind of stamp the boba balls out. Here’s your first batch of boba balls. There are little uneven, but that’s okay. It’s just for me to eat anyways. They kind of look like soy beans right now. Throw them in here and toss them around just to coat it. I’ve got these two more mini doughs to go, so I’m gonna finish this off and hopefully we’ll have plenty of boba by the end of this. (soft jazz music) A little toss. All my boba is now done. It looks like this. So these are the ones that you can buy at the Asian markets. These are the ones I made. They look kind of similar. And I think even though I said some of them came out uneven, they actually look pretty similar shaped here. You could probably feed like two or three people with this, but I’ll probably eat it all by myself. Let’s get the water boiling and cook these. Now we can toss this in just like that. Give it a little stir. The ratio is important, you don’t want too little water. Since I’m not making that much, this is a pretty good amount. So I’m gonna let it boil for I think around 15 minutes, then I’m gonna cover it up, turn off the heat, and let it sit for another 10 minutes. I’m gonna go sit down and chill for a little bit. The boba’s almost done, so over here, I am gonna start working out our brown sugar syrup. This is the muscovado sugar I’ve been using. Then I’m gonna add enough sugar for it to dissolve. Now we just wait for this to melt. Okay, the boba is now done. I have a bowl of ice water here, which I’m gonna put the boba in. This step really just helps it become more QQ, which is to give it that bounce and chewiness. Look at them, wow. They feel like they’re gonna be super chewy right now. And then we’re gonna go back over to this side and add the boba into the brown sugar. My boba. So I’m just gonna cook these down now until it becomes that beautiful syrup. It’s super goopy now. I think it’s looking really good. There we go. I have all the components ready now, now it’s just to build the drink. This is the most exciting part. (light music) There we go. And here it is, our brown sugar boba milk. Ta da! Wow, I am so excited. I feel like I might have gone a little heavy on the brown sugar. It’s gonna be really sweet, but– Oh, okay. I know I’m just drinking milk right now, but I do wish I had a boba straw. Mix it up a little. Oh, this is so good. This is so satisfying. There’s also a lot of sugar in here. The boba is like perfectly chewy. It really just smells like caramel pudding. It smells so good. Right now it just looks like milk tea. I’m just adding in some tea that I made earlier. Oh my god, this is amazing. I hope this was helpful. I already finished most of my boba during the time I’ve been talking to you guys. I hope you guys enjoy this video. I had a lot of fun. Honestly, I just make a bunch of stuff at home all the time, the most randomest things. If you guys like seeing me do that, let me know in the comments. If you haven’t subscribed to already, subscribe, and let me know what else you wanna see. This was a great success, yay! (light jazz music)