Es Mutiara (Cold Tapioca Pearls Drink)

In Canada, Bubble Tea drink is so famous. In Indonesia, we have similar drink, however, we use small tapioca pearls (mutiara) instead large tapioca pearls (boba) 😀

1/2 package of tapioca pearls
1 can of coconut milk
1 block of palm sugar
sugar
water
2 screwpine leaves

Cook tapioca/sagou pearls, see the instruction on the back of the bag. Just incase there is no instruction, put in sagou pearls into boiling hot water and stir them occasionally so they won’t stick one to another.
Cook for about 30 minutes or a bit longer until you see sagou pearls are see through (the color changes from the original to see through pearls). Turn off the stove, steep pearls for 10-20 minutes with the
lid on. After 10 minutes, drain, set in a bowl.

Bring a block of palm sugar to a boil and add in sugar for more sweetness as desire. If not using palm sugar, you can make sugar syrup for this. To make sugar syrup is pretty simple, use regular sugar dissolve in water along with brown sugar to produce brownish color of the syrup, if there is no brown sugar, all plain regular sugar syrup is just fine.

Bring to a boil a can of coconut milk with the screwpine leaves. Stir occasionally.

Let everything cool down in the fridge

How to serve: put cooked pearl in a bowl for serving, then add in few tablespoons of cooked coconut milk, then followed with sugar syrup. Dont forget for the ice cubes.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 package of tapioca pearls
• 1 can of coconut milk
• 1 block of palm sugar
• sugar
• water
• 2 screwpine leaves

Instructions

• Cook tapioca/sagou pearls, see the instruction on the back of the bag. Just incase there is no instruction, put in sagou pearls into boiling hot water and stir them occasionally so they won’t stick one to another. Cook for about 30 minutes or a bit longer until you see sagou pearls are see through (the color changes from the original to see through pearls). Turn off the stove, steep pearls for 10-20 minutes with the lid on. After 10 minutes, drain, set in a bowl.
• Bring a block of palm sugar to a boil and add in sugar for more sweetness as desire. If not using palm sugar, you can make sugar syrup for this. To make sugar syrup is pretty simple, use regular sugar dissolve in water along with brown sugar to produce brownish color of the syrup, if there is no brown sugar, all plain regular sugar syrup is just fine.
• Bring to a boil a can of coconut milk with the screwpine leaves. Stir occasionally.
• Let everything cool down in the fridge
• How to serve: put cooked pearl in a bowl for serving, then add in few tablespoons of cooked coconut milk, then followed with sugar syrup. Dont forget for the ice cubes.