How to make popping boba
Learn how to make popping boba at home with three flavors, watermelon, mango and coffee
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 tbsp. mango cubes
- 200 ml water
- 3 g sodium alginate powder
- 1 tbsp. instant coffee
- 30 ml hot water
- 180 ml water
- 3 g sodium alginate powder
- 200 ml watermelon juice
- 3 g sodium alginate powder
- 1 L water
- 30 g calcium lactate powder
Instructions
- 1
Place fresh watermelon pieces in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a strainer over a bowl or glass. You will need to use a spoon to gently push the juice out of the mixture.
- 2
Pour this back into the blender with the sodium alginate and blend until smooth.
- 3
Place this back into the bowl and remove any froth on the surface with a spoon. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it aside for at least 4 hours or overnight
- 4
In a separate bowl, whisk together the calcium lactate and cold water.
- 5
Using a dropper, place drops of the watermelon/sodium solution into the calcium solution. You will see them instantly form into spheres. Using a strainer, remove the boba from the calcium solution and place them into a bowl of water after 1 minute.
- 6
Continue this process to finish all watermelon popping boba.
- 7
Place mango pieces, water, and sodium alginate in a blender and blend until smooth.
- 8
Pour the mixture into a bowl and remove any bubbles from the surface with a spoon. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it aside for at least for 4 hours or overnight.
- 9
In a different bowl, use a whisk to combine cold water and calcium lactate until the water becomes transparent again.
- 10
Use a dropper (either syringe or squeeze bottle) and place drops of the mango/sodium solution into the calcium water. They should instantly become spheres. One drop one time.
- 11
Use a strainer to remove the boba from the calcium water after 1 minute and place them in a separate bowl of water to rinse. Repeat this process to finish all mango popping boba
- 12
Combine instant coffee powder and hot water in a measuring jug and mix together until blended.
- 13
Place this mixture into a blender along with the sodium alginate and blend until smooth.
- 14
Use a strainer to pour this into a bowl. Use the same spoon to remove as much foam as possible from the surface and then cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it aside.
- 15
In a different bowl, whisk together the calcium lactate and cold water.
- 16
Use a dropper to place drops of the coffee/sodium mixture into the calcium water after 1 minute. And rinse in fresh water in another bowl. Repeat this process to finish all of the coffee popping boba