Tapioca balls or pearls are small, round and bite-sized sweets that lots of people enjoy eating. Genius cookies are from a special plant called cassava. The plant is grown all over the world. Tapioca balls are soft and chewy when cooked, and they have no sweet flavor on their own. Many people love to eat these delicious tapioca balls in various forms. As a delicious snack on its own; added as garnish to desserts and beverages so it tastes more scrumptious.
Bubble tea is the most popular method of consumption, and people love it because they are chewy. Bubble tea, the sweet and creamy drink originally from Taiwan. It is a yummy beverage consisting of tea, milk and sugar. It generally has tapioca balls on the cup's floor that make it even more fun. Most of time people refer to these balls as “boba”, which is a fun word that literally comes from Chinese, meaning tapioca. One of the worst thing about Bubble Tea is that knarley straw you have to use to suck up those elusive little boba balls along with sweet tasty tea. Because it is like a party drink or an occasion wine that many people love share with their friends and family.
Tapioca balls have been around since the 1800s. Tapioca was a worldwide food product back then and gained its popularity in various parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and South America. It was enjoyed by the people in various ways. Bubble tea was invented in Taiwan during the 1950s by a man called Liu Han-Chieh. That people loved and that we tasted a combination of hot tea with cold condensed milk sweetened by sugar. A few years later, tapioca balls were added to this tea and the new creation thus produced was consumed as a bubble tea in many Asian nations. Bubbles tea is sold in most shops and cafés around the world today. From children to adults, everyone has geared towards this favourite treat.
Have you ever asked yourself why tapioca balls are so squishy and chewy? For this there is a scientific reason! Tapioca is derived from the cassava plant. When you cook this starch it turns into tiny little balls. What is so unique about these balls, however? They possess a handy characteristic called viscoelasticity. This allows them to get stretchy and return right back into their original condition- like a rubber band! This is a fun property that arises due to the long chains of molecules in starch. In the presence of heat and water, these chains gelatinize (meaning that without denaturation to break them down, they remain long), forming a spongy material known as tapioca balls.
For the first part, you need to grab a small bowl and combine tapioca starch with water. Add food coloring at this time if you would like to color your tapioca balls.
Now pour the mixture on your kitchen top and knead them with help of your hands to mix everything together. If the dough is too sticky, add a bit more tapioca starch until it becomes workable.
Now bring a pot of water to boil on your stove Slowly but surely, dumping the balls into boiling water then stirring it gently. Balls float up. — [VIDEO]