How to cook boba pearls - pre softened 5 minute boba
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 5 minutesminutes
Resting time 5 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Ingredients
1cupuncooked tapioca pearls
8cupswater
Sweetener
1/2cupbrown sugar
Instructions
Boil the water
Bring a large pot of water (Recommend 8 times in volume) to a rolling boil.
add the tapioca pearls and cook
Add the tapioca pearls to the boiling water. Stir the tapioca pearls gently to prevent them from sticking together. Cook for 5 minutes for quick boba pearls on medium heat.
rest it
Turn off the fire and let it rest for another 5 minutes for quick boba.
rinse or soak
Rinse the tapioca pearls in running water to remove extra starch. For an even chewier texture, soak the tapioca pearls in iced water.
Sweeten the tapioca pearls
Drain the tapioca pearls and then flavor the tapioca pearls with simple syrup honey or brown sugar syrup. If you don’t have syrup by hand, mix it with white sugar. If you want a caramelized brown sugar version, add some brown sugar in a saucepot, then place the cooked tapioca pearls in. Cook until the sugar is completely dissloved.