You can surely meetup your drink craving by making a homemade bubble tea at home. It is quite a real treat and it natural. This recipe will serve 4 servings, preparation time will be 1 hr. and 45 mins, to cook you would need 10 minutes only. This week CafeOn brings you this simple and easy to make at home Chinese Bubble Tea recipe.

Ingredients

• Boiled water – 4 1/2 cups 
• Black tea leaves – 1/4 cups (good and fresh)
• Sugar – 4 1/2 tablespoons 
• Black tapioca pearls -1/4 cup per glass (Bubbles aka “Boba”)
• 3/4 cup half and half

Method

• First, boil your water. After it reaches a rolling boil, turn off the heat and let sit for 10 minutes (because as per Chinese tea gurus intensely hot boiled water zaps all the nutrients out of the tea leaves, ergo the short cooling process prior to brewing the tea).
• Put the tea in a kettle (or a large mixing bowl)
• Be sure of it’s either in a tea bag or a few metal tea infusers. (if you haven’t got any of this equipment, you can also just strain the tea prior to adding the half and half.)
• Add the hot water and let steep for 15 minutes.
• Now add the sugar. Mix the tea and sugar thoroughly until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Then add the half and half. If you want to sub in regular milk, go right ahead, but the flavor of the finished product is truly authentic with the half and half!
• Put the tea in the fridge to chill for at least 1 hour. You can add ice, so that the tea doesn’t get diluted.
• When the tea is almost ready with the accurate temperature now break out the bubbles.
• Preparing the bubbles entails boiling them in water; you can follow the package instructions.
• Spoon out 1/4 cup of bubbles per glass and pour the finished tea for a delightfully sweet and refreshing drink!

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