Lavender Milk Tea
This refreshing, iced lavender milk tea is the perfect pick-me-up or feel-good treat! Earl Grey tea is infused with lavender leaves, then topped with almond milk and ice.
Servings: 3 glasses
Calories: 129kcal
Ingredients
- 3 Earl Grey tea bags
- ½ cup tapioca pearls
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp dried lavender flowers
- ½ cup almond milk
- 1 cup ice
Instructions
- Simmer 2 cups of water, remove from the heat.
- Add the loose lavender flowers to a tea infuser and place in the hot water along with the tea bags, steep for 5 minutes.
- Remove the tea bags and tea infuser and allow the tea to come to room temperature.
- While the tea is cooling bring a small pot of water to a boil, add the tapioca pearls reduce heat and simmer for 5-6 minutes.
- Strain the pearls, add to a small bowl, and stir through the brown sugar. Set aside and cool completely.
- Evenly divide the soaked tapioca pearls and syrup between two glasses.
- Divide the ice between the glasses and top with the steeped tea and finish off with almond milk.
- Stir and serve immediately.
Notes
- Cook and soak the tapioca pearls when needed.
- Adding ice to the drink makes it lovely and chilled.
- Any sugar, maple syrup or honey can be used to sweeten this drink.
- Any plant based milk will work in this recipe.
- Make sure to use culinary grade dried lavender flowers.
- This recipe makes either 3 smaller glasses or 2 larger glasses of boba tea. Nutritional information calculated based on 3 glasses as the total # of servings.
Nutrition
Serving: 1glass | Calories: 129kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 0.3g | Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Sodium: 61mg | Potassium: 14mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 9g