Food With A Twist: Flavored Boba Bread

So we tried to make something unusual during the weekend. Well, our first unusual thing anyway, which, if we continue, will probably become a norm eventually. Anyway, I digress. We made something interesting during the weekend: fruit-flavored boba bread.

Here’s how it went: (The recipe is down below!)

First, we got all of the ingredients. The usual: all-purpose flour, some salt, some sugar, some flavored fructose that they use in a popular boba chain, some greek yogurt, some yeast, some brewed tea (whatever poison of your choice; ours was jasmine), some instant boba…

We mixed the flour, salt, yogurt, and yeast, and then kneaded that until it was doughy…

Here, we added some of that fruit-flavored fructose and the jasmine tea in place of just regular water.

Then we let it sit for about an hour on top of some warmth to let it rise.

Close to the end of the hour, we started making the instant boba. It’s very simple, simply boil and let lie for a bit. Then drain the water and dump the boba in some honey. For this one, we made a mixture of honey and the flavored fructose for a bigger fruit tea punch.

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Once the boba has soaked up the flavor the honey and cooled down a bit, we started tearing the dough up and rolling them into fist-sized balls.

Once we got them all balled up, we patted them down flat and dropped some boba inside.

Then we wrapped them up tight.

Cooking-wise, we decided to go with a pan sear route. No oil, no butter, just straight onto the pan.

Look at how it’s coming together!

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Mmm, gooey… Look at that inside.

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Verdict: Failure

The texture of the bread itself was great, and the boba was very nice and chewy, but the fruity fructose (this kind, at least) didn’t translate well at all. I’m thinking it would have tasted much better with some more added sweetness, like honey or sugar. As it was, it tasted very sour and bitter, which is a shame since they came out so well.

Oh well, better luck next time.

Now, onto the next…

For those interested in the recipe:

Flavored Boba Bread Recipe

3 cups of all purpose flour
1 tsp of salt
2 tsp of yeast
1 cup of 2% whole milk greek yogurt
1 cup of jasmine tea
2 tbsp of your choice of flavored sweetener (we used grapefruit and kiwi fructose)
1 cup instant boba