Plum Bubble Tea

Plum Bubble Tea

Plum bubble tea has a flavor of sweet and sour to it, as generally, the plum fruit ranges in between sweet and tart, depending on its maturity. Plums look like giant purple grapes. The colors of a typical plum isn't green like some grapes, and the skin and texture is a bit firmer, also the flavor is less sweet compared to grapes. However, there is a such thing as a green plum. These are plums that are picked early, resulting in a more bitter sour flavor to the taste.

 

Plums contain all of the vitamin C needed for the day, and includes other resources such as: calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium, and magnesium. Potassium and magnesium help to regulate the nerve system, vitamin A helps the organs and immune system, and vitamin C helps the body recover from injuries.

 

Here we will go over how to make the plum bubble tea easy and quick, with the materials provided, for home or as a barista at a boba shop.

The syrup for making the plum boba tea is available here for purchase:

2 to 4 tablespoons of plum per 16 ounces of fluid is enough for making the plum boba drink. This can be mixed into water, milk, tea, and other juices and desserts.

Boba Shop Help: Basic Ingredients for Making Plum Bubble Tea

 

These are the basic ingredients needed to make the plum bubble tea at home, or for your boba shop if you need help as a barista.

1. Make your tea. The tea should be 2 teaspoons of the tea leaf flavor of your choice for every 16 ounces of water. Here are the tea leaf flavors for bubble tea.
2. Place 5 to 6 ounces of cooked tapioca pearls per 16 ounces into the bottom of the cup.
3. Add 2 to 4 tablespoons (3 is recommended) of plum syrup flavoring to the drink for every 16 ounces.
   
4. Pour the tea, along with the milk (if you are making a milk tea) into the cup and shake, or mix it together.
   
5. If you are adding milk to create a plum milk tea, then add 4 to 6 tablespoons of the milk tea powder mix, or use 7 to 8 ounces of milk with 8 ounces of tea.
   
6. Add ice as needed.

 

Please refer to the guide to making the perfect tapioca pearls, and cooking tapioca pearls to ensure that your bubble tea drink has good flavor and texture.

Flavors That Pair Well With Plum Bubble Tea

 

Here are the flavors that pair well with the plum bubble drink that you should try in combination:

 

• Almond
• Cherry
• Lemon
• Lime
  
• Black Sesame
• Orange
• Honeydew
• Ginger
• Raspberry
• Yogurt
• Vanilla
• Shiso
  

The boba flavors mentioned above are located in the bubble tea flavors list. The lemon and lime can turn this into a mildly tangy fruit bubble tea, while the honeydew and cherry flavors can sweeten it a bit. Nutty flavors match well with plums, so the black sesame, and almond are good choices. Yogurt is a great base for just about any fruit flavor. The shiso comes with the plum mixed with it as a separate syrup.

 

Making the plum bubble tea into a milk tea is simple by just using the milk tea mix located in the 'how to make milk tea' guide, which has the black milk tea flavoring as the base. 

Tapioca pearls is a good selection for the topping, along with the popping boba flavors: cherry, lemon.