Oolong Milk Tea
Oolong milk tea has a sweet flavor thanks to the unique flavor of Oolong tea and oat milk. With chewy tapioca balls, it’s easier than ever to make this Taiwanese Oolong in boba form!
Servings: 1 Serving
Calories: 191kcal
Ingredients
Boba Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- ⅓ cup tapioca balls
Oolong Milk Tea Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water hot
- 2 tablespoons loose-leaf oolong tea
- 1 teaspoon raw sugar
- 1/2 cup oat milk
- 1 ½ cup ice
Instructions
- Make The Tapioca Pearls: Pour two cups of water into a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Add tapioca pearls to the saucepan and boil for five minutes (until the pearls start floating to the top). (If you don’t have quick-cooking tapioca pearls, follow your package directions.) Scoop floating pearls into a metal mesh strainer and rinse with cool water.
- Tea Instructions: Heat water in a teapot or electric tea kettle to 190°F or 88°C. Add loose-leaf tea to a tea infuser and place it in a thing glass. Pour hot water over the tea and let steep for 9 minutes. Remove the tea. Scoop in the cane sugar and stir thoroughly.
- Assemble The Milk Tea: Scoop tapioca balls into a serving glass. Next, add ice on top of the boba. Then, pour oat milk over the boba, followed by the oolong tea sugar mixture. Stir and enjoy with a reusable boba tea straw.
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Notes
Storage Tips
Milk oolong tea is such a relaxing and delightful drink to sip. It goes down easily to the point where you won’t want to stop drinking it. At the same time, because of the tapioca pearls and how filling tea with milk is, you may not be able to finish it. Here’s how you can store it for later!
- Fridge: The first thing you should do is remove the tapioca balls from your bubble tea. These do not keep well in the milk tea and become hard rather than retain that lovely chewiness. Scoop them out and gobble them up before stowing the bubble tea. You can keep the liquid for a maximum of 2 days.
- Freeze: I do not recommend freezing any kind of bubble tea. With non-dairy milk (or even with regular dairy milk), it will change texture and just not be as spectacular as it once was. It’s easy enough to make it fresh, though!
- Meal Prep: If you want to prepare oolong milk tea in advance, you can steep the tea ahead of time. This way, it shortens your prep time when making bubble tea. I don’t recommend doing so too far ahead, though. About 12 hours to no more than 24 hours is a good time frame for the optimum flavors in your milk tea drink.
Nutrition
Calories: 191kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Sodium: 134mg | Potassium: 60mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 246IU | Calcium: 201mg | Iron: 1mg
