Today we’re so excited to introduce you to tiger milk tea and show you how easy it is to make tiger milk tea or tiger boba at home. You only need three ingredients to make this homemade bubble tea recipe with its signature tiger stripes. It’s one of the sweetest bubble teas on the market right now and a must-try!
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- What’s tiger milk tea
- Tiger bubble tea ingredients
- Instructions
- How to make the tiger stripes
- Tiger boba- Tiger Milk Tea
- Why it is named Tiger Boba?
- Variations of tiger boba
- What does tiger milk tea taste like?
- FAQs
What’s tiger milk tea
Tiger milk tea is fast becoming one of the world’s most popular bubble teas besides the fan favorite, taro milk tea. It’s unknown whether this is because of the simple ingredients or the sweet caramel taste.
Tiger milk tea or tiger boba is a very uncomplicated bubble tea that’s made with just brown sugar, tapioca pearls, and milk. So tiger boba is a brown sugar boba. The name is after the tiger strips formed by drizzling dark brown sugar syrup down the cup’s interior.
It also has some other names including tiger boba and tiger bubble tea.
Tiger bubble tea ingredients
Ready to make tiger milk tea at home? You only need three ingredients:
- Brown sugar: brown sugar is a very popular ingredient in Asian cuisine. It actually is white sugar with molasses. It gives a lovely caramelized color to both sweet and savory dishes.
- Tapioca pearls (cooked with brown sugar): use brown sugar boba pearls in brown sugar syrup in a summarized way. We will show the details in the recipe card. You can use store-bought tapioca pearls or make some boba pearls at home.
- Milk: use whole milk for a creamy taste.
Instructions
Step 1: Cook the boba pearls
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We will start by cooking the boba pearls. Bring 8 times of water to a boil and then place tapioca pearls. Read the instructions on the package (find the required time). It may be 20 minutes or 5 minutes. Cover the lid, turn off the fire, and let it rest for another required time. If you are using store-bought tapioca pearls, check out this detailed guide on how to cook boba pearls.
Step 2: Rnise the boba pearls
Rinse the boba pearls under running water, this can remove the stickiness.
Step 3: Simmer with brown sugar
Add around ¾ cup of brown sugar in a pot, then place the boba pearls in. No need to add water. Slow down the fire and stir from time to time to avoid being sticky.
Cook until brown sugar is bubbled. Now our brown sugar-simmered tapioca pearls are ready.
Now we can further assemble our tiger milk tea.
How to make the tiger stripes
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The tiger strips can be formed by rotating the cup when adding the brown sugar syrup with boba. An easier way is to use your scoop to smear the brown sugar on the inside of the glass.
Tiger boba is served warm usually. But you can also choose to add some extra ice cubes in summer. Adding ice cubes will help to freeze the strips and make them last longer.
Why it is named Tiger Boba?
Tiger boba gets its name from the brown sugar syrup drizzled down the side of the cup, which resembles tiger stripes. Who do we have to thank for the name? Tiger Sugar, an award-winning boba brand recognized worldwide, created tiger boba in Taiwan in 2017. They were the first company to add tiger stripes to all of their boba drinks, which are made with their unique handmade syrups.They use an eight-hour cooking method to make the tapioca pearls and brown sugar syrup (which they call black sugar). Their signature drink is tiger bubble tea: black sugar boba with pearl milk and cream mousse. This copycat tiger bubble tea recipe is the perfect homemade replica. If you want to add the cream mousse, you can add a dash of heavy cream to the cup or top it with whipped cream.
Variations of tiger boba
This messy look and the brown color of the milk, when stirred, is also why you might see tiger boba called dirty milk tea elsewhere. However, despite the name, tiger milk tea doesn’t include tea, while dirty milk tea is often made with black tea. Tiger Sugar and Xing Fu Tang all provide this type of bubble tea.
Another similar type is Mudflip Tea, created by YiFang. Instead of making tiger stripes, they just add the brown sugar syrup and boba to the bottom of the cup and pour in the milk. Then they encourage customers to “flip the mud” and watch the layers slowly mix together. You can easily make this into a Mudlfip Tea if you skip the stripes and use a cup with a secure lid.
Baskin-Robbins’ Tiger Milk Bubble Tea
Introduced across the States in 2022, Baskin-Robbins’ Tiger Milk Bubble Tea “pays homage to the beloved Taiwanese milk tea.” It’s a combination of tiger and brown sugar bubble tea, with the addition of Baskin-Robbins’ ice cream, of course. So the ingredients are brown sugar tiger stripes, brown sugar bursting boba, black tea, whole milk, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
What does tiger milk tea taste like?
Tiger milk tea’s most similar counterpart would be a caramel milkshake because the brown sugar syrup and milk combine to give it a deliciously deep and sweet caramelized flavor. However, tiger boba goes one step further and pairs the caramel taste with chewy tapioca pearls for extra texture.
FAQs
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