Honeydew Bubble Tea

If you like Taiwanese bubble tea, you'll love our delicious variation made with fresh honeydew melon, green tea, and dairy-free coconut milk. It's delicate, mellow, and refreshing, perfect for sipping a hot day.

Honeydew Bubble Tea

Info

Nutrition per serving
NutrientAmountRDA
Net Carbs38.2 g13.9%
of which Sugars12.1 g13.4%
Fibers0.8 g2.9%
Fats1.2 g1.9%
of which Saturates4.8 g23.9%
of which Omega 30.6 g58.9%
Proteins0.5 g1.1%
Calcium45 mg4.5%
Vitamin A39 mcg5.6%
Vitamin C11 mg14.5%
Iron0.8 mg5.2%
Potassium178 mg5.1%
Sodium16 mg0.7%
Cholesterol0 mg0%
Kcal166 8.3%
Macro split
  • net carbs 94%
  • sugars 30%
  • fats 3%
  • saturates 12%
  • proteins 1%
  • fibers 2%
*RDA based on a 2000 kcal diet;
**Nutritional data sources: USDA, food labels.
KCAL
166 per serving
TIME
20m
HEALTH

This delicious honeydew bubble tea is a fruity spin of the classic Tawainese cold drink. It's quick and easy to make, perfect to quench your thirst on a hot day and feel energised!

Our recipe includes all the classic boba tea ingredients, namely cold tea, milk, a sweetener, and tapioca pearls. Then, we added fresh honeydew melon slices, peeled, deseeded and blended until smooth.

As for the tea base, we chose green tea instead of the usual Chinese black tea. That's because green tea has a mellow taste, and it doesn't overpower the delicate flavour of honeydew melon. Plus, it's much higher in antioxidants than black tea, which is always a good thing!

Because we wanted our bubble tea recipe to be healthier, lower in sugars, dairy-free, and vegan, we swapped cow's milk with coconut milk and caster sugar with maple syrup.

Many honeydew melon bubble tea recipes use green honeydew melon powder instead of the fresh fruit. Sure, you can have a prettier bright green drink if you use the powder. But you'll give up the extra fibres, nutrients, and delicious taste that fresh melon offers instead. And a fresh melon is way cheaper!

Still, if fresh honeydew melons are out of season and you can't get them, we'll also give you the option to use the melon powder when preparing the honeydew milk in the tips section below.

And of course, we used tapioca pearls. Fun and deliciously chewy, tapioca pearls are what make bubble tea a bubble tea. Also called boba, they're available in various colours at your local Asian food store or online.

They're super easy to prepare and add to your bubble tea. Follow our recipe below, and we'll show you how. Still, if you can't find them or prefer not to use them, you can just make a honeydew milk tea without tapioca pearls. It will be just as tasty!

Ok, time to get your tallest and prettiest glasses out of the cupboard and let's make this honeydew boba tea together!

Ingredients

Adjustments
Serves
Measuring System
Green Tea Bags4
Water800 mL
Tapioca Pearls120 g
Maple Syrup40 mL
Honeydew Melon240 g
Unsweetened Coconut Drink240 mL

Step 1

Boil the given water, pour it into a bowl and add the green tea bags.

Let them steep for 5 minutes, and then remove them.

Allow the green tea to cool down completely in the fridge.

green tea in a bowl

Step 2

Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to a boil and add the tapioca pearls.

As soon as they float to the surface, cover the pot, and cook them for 3 minutes.

Then, turn off the heat and keep the pearls inside the pot for 3 more minutes.

cooking tapioca pearls in a pot

Step 3

Now, drain the cooking water and add the pearls to a bowl filled with cold water.

Let them cool down for 20 seconds and drain the water again.

Mix the tapioca balls with maple syrup.

cooked tapioca pearls with maple syrup

Step 4

Peel and deseed the honeydew melon, chop it into chunks, and add it to a food processor.

Pour in the coconut milk and blitz all until smooth.

You can optionally filter the honeydew milk through a cheesecloth or fine-mesh sieve to remove any small bits.

honeydew melon and coconut milk

Step 5

To assemble the bubble tea, divide the tapioca balls among tall glasses and pour in the cold green tea (1).

Finally, tip in the honeydew milk, stir well, and serve with ice cubes (2).

tapioca balls and green tea in a glas
1
honeydew melon bubble tea in a glass
2

Tips

If you can't find fresh honeydew melon, you can swap it with honeydew powder, available online. To use it, measure 2 tablespoons of powder per person and mix it with a little hot green tea until completely dissolved. Then, add it to the remaining green tea and pour it into a glass with coconut milk, following our recipe above.