Homemade Tapioca Pearls With 3 Ingredients
There's nothing quite like the satisfaction of making your own tapioca pearls from scratch without preservatives and made from ingredients of your choice. You
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 20 g brown sugar
- 50 g water
- 100 g tapioca starch
- 500 ml water
- 10 g brown sugar
Instructions
- 1
Making Dry Tapioca Pearls
- 2
In a cooking pot, cook on low heat the 20g brown sugar and 50g water and bring to a boil.
- 3
Once it boils, turn off the heat and add the 100g tapioca starch.
- 4
Mix the tapioca starch well and keep stirring while the mixture is hot.
- 5
When the tapioca starch mixture becomes a dough, knead and pull it by hand. It should eventually become smooth and elastic without clumps after 5 minutes.
- 6
Then, cut the dough into long strips.
- 7
Next, cut the strips into small cubes, about 1.5cm by 1.5cm.
- 8
Roll the cubes in your hand to make small balls.
- 9
Place the balls in a bowl or container.
- 10
Afterward, dust the balls with tapioca starch to prevent them from sticking together. You can shake the bowl or container to mix the tapioca starch evenly into the balls.
- 11
From this point, you can store it in the freezer or fridge or proceed to cook the pearls.
- 12
Cooking Dry Tapioca Pearls
- 13
To cook the pearls, bring 500ml water to a boil in a cooking pot.
- 14
Once it boils, put the dry tapioca pearls into the pot and cook on high heat for 5 minutes or until they float to the surface.
- 15
Take your soft and chewy pearls and put them in a container.
- 16
Add 10g brown sugar to the pearls and stir well.
- 17
Enjoy these moist and soft tapioca pearls in a milk tea drink or mango pudding!