Our peach bubble tea recipe is a fruity twist on classic Taiwanese boba, with tapioca pearls as a topping. This is a refreshing drink to try if you love fruit and boba.
Learn everything you need to know about this drink and try our easy, foolproof recipe.
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What is peach boba made of?
Generally, peach boba is made of green tea, fruit syrup, milk and tapioca pearls. However, some versions eliminate the tea, focusing entirely on the fruity flavour.
Similarly, other versions eliminate the tapioca pearls or replace them with different toppings (e.g. coconut jelly or grass jelly).
What does peach milk tea taste like?
Peach milk tea is sweet, milky, and fruity. Peach is excellent with green tea as it has floral notes that complement the 'earthy' taste. In addition, topping boba adds texture and makes the drink more filling. Incorporating milk brings creaminess and rounds out the flavour profile.
In contrast to more common flavours like Tiger milk tea and Royal milk tea, the fruit gives a punchy fragrance that makes it unique. The natural flavour of the fruit is also what makes other fruit-based bubble teas, such as strawberry milk tea and lychee boba, popular.
Peach Bubble Tea Ingredients
For our recipe, you'll need the following peach bubble tea ingredients:
- Peach
- Green tea
- Tapioca pearls or topping of your choice
- Sugar or simple syrup (optional)
- Milk (optional)
Peach
You can use different forms of this fruit for this drink. For example, you can use peach syrup, which is a simple syrup infused with a fruity flavour. You can easily make this syrup at home following our steps below or substitute it with peach flavour powder.
We use fresh fruit, 2 peaches per serving. The peachiness is not as strong, but it tastes more refreshing in our opinion. Many store bought syrups contain a lot of sugar, which may be unhealthy.
Tea
We generally recommend using green tea (loose-leaf or bags) for our fruity boba recipes. Black tea has a more robust, bitter flavour that can overwhelm the fruit flavour.
Alternatively, you can try Lipton peach bubble tea, which has a rich, fruity flavour with a slightly bitter aftertaste. However, in our experience using a fruit-flavoured medium isn't ideal, as it makes the drink's flavour homogenous.
Sugar
We recommend adding simple syrup, which is just one part sugar dissolved in one part water. We don't recommend using sugar granules in cold drinks as they don't mix well. You can also use sugar-free syrup or alternatives like stevia or honey.
Milk
Although milk is optional, we recommend using it to add creaminess. For example, Japanese Royal Milk Tea (Peach) uses dairy creamer to enhance the fruity flavour.
For our peach bubble tea recipe, we used almond milk. Plant-based milks like almond and oat work well for fruit tea, adding a bit of creaminess and nuttiness to the flavour.
Peach Boba Pearls
Tapioca pearls are our default choice as they add a chewy element to the drink without too much-added flavour.
However, you can make our popping boba recipe if you want a different texture and added flavour.
Peach Bubble Tea Recipe
Ingredients
- 2-3 tablespoon tapioca pearls
- 1 tea bag green tea
- 2 peaches
- 2-3 tablespoon simple syrup or white sugar
- 3 tablespoon milk optional
- ice for serving
Cooking Instructions
- Firstly, add the uncooked boba pearls to a pot of boiling water for approximately 7 minutes. Then lower the heat and simmer for another 5 minutes. Remove the pearls to an ice bath and let them cool down for 1 minute.
- Deseed and cut the peaches into rough chunks. Using a blender, blend the fruit until they form a puree. Then, pour the puree through a fine mesh sieve to separate the fibre from the juice. This may take some time as some peaches can be quite fibrous, so be patient. You may want to squeeze the fibres to extract all the juices. Put the peach juice extract aside.
- To make the green tea, pour hot water over the green tea bag in a cup or pot and allow it to steep for 1 to 2 mins. Put aside and allow it to cool.
- To assemble your peach bubble tea, add the pearls to a glass cup, followed by ice. Then, pour the tea over the ice. Then, pour over peace juice extract, milk, and simple syrup.
Recipe Notes
- You may want to add more pieces if you want a stronger peach-tasting bubble tea. When we used 2 peaches for 1 serving, it produced a fragrant peach tea with a mildly sweet fruity taste. You can add some peach slices at the end for a more aesthetic look.
- You can replace simple syrup or white sugar with any sweetener (e.g., stevia).
- Although we recommend it, milk is not required to make this drink. You can use any milk alternative. For a non-milk version, just omit the milk and replace tapioca pearls with popping pearls.
- Tapioca pearls go well with mildly sweet toppings (e.g., coconut jelly, aloe vera or sago).
- You can replace green tea with another mild alternative, such as jasmine or oolong.
- You can use 2-4g of loose-leaf as an alternative to bags.
Nutrition
Calories have been calculated using an online calculator. Nutritional information offered on Honest Food Talks is for general information purposes and is only a rough estimate.
Making a Bubble Tea Peach Syrup using Fresh Peaches
A bubble tea peach syrup is great if it’s hard to find in-season peaches in your region. It also saves some of the assembly work you need to do to make your boba.
Typically, we create a peach syrup for our bubble tea by blending fresh peaches and filtering them through a fine mesh sieve to get their puree. Then, we mix it with simple syrup to make it into a fruit-based syrup.
Besides peach bubble tea, our peach syrup can be used for other drinks and dishes. For example, it can be used on ice cream, over pancakes and waffles, as an addition to smoothies, and more.
Depending on the type of peach, you might get a sweeter or juicier syrup base. Either way, always go for ripe ones. Our syrup will typically last 1-2 months in the fridge, so it's more convenient for us to make fruity boba in the coming months.
Using Peach Milk Tea Powder
You could use a ready-made flavoured powder for our peach bubble tea recipe. This alternative is accessible and easy to use.
Generally, these powders include artificial flavourings, preservatives, and colours. Therefore, we do not recommend using them when you can a healthier version with the fruit.
However, if you decide to use this, add the powder to the beverage to replace fresh fruit.
For another super convenient alternative to powder, you can also opt for a peach bubble tea kit. These kits include everything you need to create a fruity boba drink in minutes.
How Many Calories Are In Peach Bubble Tea?
Our peach bubble tea recipe contains about 350 calories per serving. To reduce calories, you can substitute the milk with non-dairy or skim or skip it altogether. In addition, you can opt to use a low-calorie sweetener and add fewer boba pearls to the final drink.
Variations To Try Next
You can also try out many other delicious fruits and drink infusions - endless possibilities! Here are some variants which we think are worth your calories:
- Peach mango bubble tea
- Peachberry bubble tea (uses strawberries)
- Peach oolong bubble tea
- Peach jasmine tea boba
This truly artisanal beverage is one you can enjoy from the comfort of your home! If you want to see more recipes like our peach bubble tea one, follow us on Instagram @honestfoodtalks. Bon appetit.
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