Spice up Your Oatmeal With Honey Boba.
Oatmeal is a prime candidate for accessories. Like rice or pasta, you can eat it plain, but why deprive yourself when there’s so much more to it. Instead of adding a crunchy or crunchy texture to my oatmeal, I decided to take the path less traveled and went for the chewiness. I added honey soaked boba pearls to the bowl and it may have been the most fun oatmeal I’ve ever had.
Boba pearls, also called tapioca pearls, are the famous soft, sticky, and slippery bubbles in bubble tea. They are made from tapioca starch, which is mixed with water and kneaded into a soft dough. This dough is rolled into mini balls and cooked until completely cooked and transparent. They are usually added to sugar syrup and when you are ready, you can drizzle them over your desired treat. You can buy them ready to cook or make a batch from scratch . Their chewy texture and slightly sweetened flavor make them an attractive addition to iced milk tea or vanilla soft serve.
Keep a pack of ready-to-boil bubbles in your pantry:
I used packaged dry tapioca pearls, which cook faster than homemade ones and obviously you don’t need to roll them out. Whatever brand you buy, prepare it according to the package directions. For my bag, this meant bringing about four cups of water to a boil and slowly adding a third of a cup of dry boba pearls. I let them simmer until they floated, about a minute or two. I then covered the pan with a lid and turned the heat down to low. The pearls were cooked for another four to five minutes.
While the pearls are simmering, I recommend putting the oatmeal on another burner so everything cooks at the same time. After you’ve simmered the boba for five minutes, turn off the heat but leave the boba, covered, on the hot burner for another five minutes. This will be enough time to finish cooking the oatmeal.
Transfer the hot oatmeal to a bowl and check the boba pearls. Taste the pearl to make sure it is soft enough. If you like them softer, leave them in the hot water for a few more minutes. Strain and transfer the tapioca pearls to a small bowl with two tablespoons of honey. Sprinkle as many honey tapioca pearls as you like into the oatmeal. I’ve used them all. Each bite is chewy, sweet, warm and comforting. You can keep it simple using just boba pearls, or create a textured roller coaster by topping it with something crunchy like toasted nuts or cocoa nibs.