Taro Bubble Tea

5 from 1 vote

Rich taro milk tea is the purple drink you didn’t know you needed! This taro milk bubble tea recipe is made with the starchy root vegetable and chewy tapioca balls for a sweet and delicious drink that you can enjoy iced, hot, or blended. This is the go-to purple bubble tea recipe.

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Total Time15

Course: Drink

Cuisine: Asian

Servings: Serving

Calories: 257kcal

Author: Rae Aflatooni

Equipment

Ingredients

Boba Ingredients

2 cups water
½ cup tapioca balls

Taro Milk Tea Ingredients

½ cup water hot
1 tablespoon Jasmine Green Tea
1/2 oat milk
3 tablespoons freeze-dried taro
1 ½ cup ice

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Instructions

Make The Boba: Add two cups of water into a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Scoop tapioca bubbles into the water and boil until the pearls float to the top. (This usually takes about 4-5 minutes.) (If you don’t have quick-cooking tapioca pearls, follow your package directions.) Scoop floating boba into a metal mesh strainer and rinse with cool water. (If you are making the hot version, no need to rinse.)
Taro Tea Instructions: Heat water in a teapot or electric tea kettle to 175°F or 79°C. Scoop loose-leaf jasmine tea into a tea infuser. Pour hot water over the tea and let steep for 4 minutes.
Remove tea. Add taro root powder to freshly brewed tea and stir thoroughly.
Assemble The Milk Tea: Scoop the boba into a serving glass. Add ice on top of the tapioca pearls. Pour oat milk in next, followed by the taro tea mixture. Finally, stir and enjoy with a reusable boba straw.

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Notes

Storage Tips

You can definitely make taro milk tea ahead od serving it to simplify things. However, I do not recommend making a ton ahead of time because the boba pearls can get hard and lose that charming chewiness in the fridge.

Fridge: If you want to store your taro bubble tea in the fridge, make sure you do so without those pearls. Then it will keep for 1 to 2 days. Check out How Long Does Milk Tea Last In The Fridge for more information.

Freeze: I don’t recommend freezing this recipe for taro milk tea. It won’t taste the same, plus it’s just as easy to make it fresh or just ahead of serving it.

Meal Prep: You can make your chewy boba pearls ahead of time, but I don’t recommend you do so too far ahead of schedule. In fact, 24 hours would be the maximum, ideally, though 12 hours is the best way to plan. I much prefer making the tapioca pearls just before to keep them at that perfect texture. You can steep the tea first, though, which definitely keeps it better and cuts down on that prep time.

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