How to make popping boba
User Reviews
5
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Prep Time
10 mins
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Cook Time
20 mins
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Additional Time
4 hrs
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Total Time
4 hrs 30 mins
How to make popping boba
Description
Making popping boba involves blending fruit juices or flavored liquids with sodium alginate powder to create a liquid mixture. This mixture is left to sit to remove froth, ensuring a smooth solution. Meanwhile, calcium lactate is dissolved in water to form a gelling bath.
The flavored sodium alginate liquid is then carefully dropped into the calcium bath with a dropper. Upon contact, a thin gel membrane forms around each drop, encapsulating the liquid inside and creating small spheres that resemble caviar. These spheres are removed after about one minute and rinsed in plain water to stop the gelling process.
Variations include using watermelon juice, mango with water, or coffee extracts to create different popping boba flavors. This technique uses simple ingredients and basic kitchen equipment to craft flavorful boba that add a distinctive texture and burst of flavor to beverages and desserts.
Ingredients
mango popping
- 2 tbsp. Mango cubes
- 200 ml water
- 3 g sodium alginate powder
coffee popping
- 1 tbsp. instant coffee
- 30 ml water hot
- 180 ml water
- 3 g sodium alginate powder
Watermelon popping boba
- 200 ml watermelon juice
- 3 g sodium alginate powder
calcium lactate water base
- 1 L water
- 30 g Calcium Lactate powder
Instructions
Watermelon popping boba
- 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.
- Pour this back into the blender with the sodium alginate and blend until smooth.
- 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
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the calcium lactate and cold water.
- 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.
- Continue this process to finish all watermelon popping boba.
Mango popping boba
- Place mango pieces, water, and sodium alginate in a blender and blend until smooth.
- 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.
- In a different bowl, use a whisk to combine cold water and calcium lactate until the water becomes transparent again.
- 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.
- 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
Coffee popping boba
- Combine instant coffee powder and hot water in a measuring jug and mix together until blended.
- Place this mixture into a blender along with the sodium alginate and blend until smooth.
- 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.
- In a different bowl, whisk together the calcium lactate and cold water.
- 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
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