Made with a few ingredients, this Lychee Boba comes together quickly and easily. This lychee bubble tea is sweet, fragrant, and creamy and will become your new favourite!
If you haven’t tried lychee bubble tea before, then you’re in for a treat! Lychee has a sweet, aromatic taste to it which translates really well into a lychee boba. Paired with brown sugar syrup and some chewy tapioca balls, you’re going to want to drink two!
Ingredients You’ll Need
- tapioca pearls — I use these specific ones for extra sweetness for this hojicha boba. You can use any topioca pearls you like.
- muscovado sugar — or dark brown sugar. Muscovado sugar is a little less refined than regular brown sugar so it has more pronounced caramel and toffee notes to it.
- lychee powder — this recipe uses lychee powder that has creamer mixed in so you do not have to purchase and add that separately.
- milk — feel free to use 50/50 milk and water or 100% milk. I like how creamy it tastes with 100% milk but H prefers it with 50% water.
- green tea — I used genmaicha tea but jasmine tea is great as well.
You’ll also need a blender for this recipe. Some packages instruct that you shake the powder with hot water together but I find that sometimes the powder doesn’t dissolve fully. I prefer a blender to make sure the lychee powder fully mixes into the lychee boba.
How to Make Lychee Bubble Tea
Brown Sugar Boba Pearl Syrup
- Prepare your tapioca pearls according to the package.
- In a pot, combine the muscovado sugar with 40 ml of water and bring it to a boil. Turn down the heat to a simmer and add in the prepared tapioca pearls. Simmer until the brown sugar syrup has thickened. Simmering the cooked tapioca pearls in the syrup just adds more flavour to them.
- Remove from heat once it has thickened.
Lychee Boba
- Steep the green tea and set aside.
- In a blender, combine the lychee powder and milk (or 50/50 milk and cold filtered water). Blend until fully combined.
- In a cup, add in half of the brown sugar syrup with the pearls.
- Add in the ice cubes.
- Add the blended lychee powder and milk to the cup.
- Top off with green tea.
- Mix until everything has combined.
Recipe Tips and Notes
- Please feel free to adjust the amount of tapioca pearls and brown sugar syrup to your liking. I prefer my boba tea to be on the sweeter side and I love chewing on QQ pearls so I’m all for it!
- Feel free to double or even triple this recipe.
- Be sure to get some boba straws as your pearls won’t fit through regular straws!
If you want, you can definitely make your own pearls. For a while, I made my own but it was so time consuming rolling every single tapioca pearl by hand that I just purchase the shelf stable ones instead. This is the one I buy.
The boba balls are best consumed immediately so I would not recommend making this in advance. When left out for too long (a couple of hours), the tapioca balls will harden.
You can definitely skip ice to your lychee bubble tea if you’re worried it’ll dilute the drink!
They’re the same thing. Boba, boba tea, bubble tea, milk tea, tapioca tea, pearl milk tea. It’s mostly a regional verbiage.
You can! If you want to make lychee boba with real lychees, peel and remove the pits of a handful of lychees (8 to 10). Blend the lychees to make a puree and strain the juices if you don’t want the chunks. I don’t mind the texture since they go well with the tapioca. Blend the pureed lychee (or its juices) with the milk and combine with the brown sugar tapioca.
More Boba Tea Recipes to Try
Lychee Boba
Ingredients
Brown Sugar Boba Pearl Syrup
- ½ cup tapioca pearls
- ¼ cup muscovado sugar, or dark brown sugar
- 50 ml cold water
Lychee Boba
- ½ cup green tea
- 2 to 3 tbsp lychee powder
- 1½ cup milk
Equipment
Instructions
Brown Sugar Boba Pearl Syrup
- Prepare your tapioca pearls according to the package.
- In a pot, combine the muscovado sugar with 40 ml of water and bring it to a boil. Turn down the heat to a simmer and add in the prepared tapioca pearls. Simmer until the brown sugar syrup has thickened. Simmering the cooked tapioca pearls in the syrup just adds more flavour to them.
- Remove from heat once it has thickened.
Lychee Boba
- Steep the green tea and set aside.
- In a blender, combine the lychee powder and milk (or 50/50 milk and cold filtered water). Blend until fully combined.
- In a cup, add in half of the brown sugar syrup with the pearls. Add in the ice cubes.
- Add the blended lychee powder and milk to the cup. Top off with green tea.
- Mix until everything has combined.
Notes
- If you want to make lychee boba with real lychees, peel and remove the pits of a handful of lychees (8 to 10). Blend the lychees to make a puree and strain the juices if you don’t want the chunks. I don’t mind the texture since they go well with the tapioca. Blend the pureed lychee (or its juices) with the milk and combine with the brown sugar tapioca.
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Mindy
Thanks for this! I have the powder and wasn’t sure how to use it! When I tried to shake it together with water it was not pleasant. I did your milk method and it was much creamier and tasty!