Wintermelon Milk Tea
Wintermelon milk tea is a refreshing, sweet bubble tea made with fresh wintermelon, jasmine tea, brown sugar, and chewy tapioca pearls! Serve this fruity beverage for a quick pick-me-up or mid afternoon treat.
Prep Time40 minutes mins
Cook Time30 minutes mins
Resting Time1 hour hr
Total Time2 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Asian, Vegan
Diet: Gluten Free, Low Lactose, Low Salt, Vegan, Vegetarian
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 205kcal
- 10 ounces wintermelon
- ⅓ cup brown sugar or powdered monk fruit
- 1 tbsp rock sugar or coconut sugar
- 3 Jasmine tea bags
- ½ cup tapioca pearls
- 1½ tbsp maple syrup
- ½ cup oat milk
- 1 cup ice
Peel and dice the wintermelon and place into a bowl. Sprinkle with brown sugar, mix well, and allow to sit for 1 hour.
Pour the wintermelon and all juices into a pot and bring to a boil.
Sprinkle with rock sugar or coconut sugar, reduce heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes while stirring every 5 minutes to prevent the wintermelon from burning. Once cooked the wintermelon will be translucent and the juices will have thickened.
Remove from the heat and place the wintermelon and juices into a highspeed food processor and blitz until smooth.
Strain the wintermelon pureé, set aside and allow it to cool.
Meanwhile simmer 2 cups of water, remove from the heat and add the tea bags, steep for 5 minutes. Remove the tea bags 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 allow to cool.
To assemble the drink: Evenly divide the soaked tapioca pearls and syrup between four glasses.
Divide the ice between the glasses, top with the wintermelon syrup, tea, and milk.
Serve immediately
- Note: for a lower sugar option, use powdered monk fruit instead of the brown sugar. If you use monk fruit, each serving of tea will have only 136 calories, 33 grams carbs, 1 gram protein, 25mg sodium, 1 gram fiber and only 14 grams sugar.
- Dice the wintermelon into small cubes to enable even cooking.
- Cook and soak the tapioca pearls when needed.
- Adding ice to the drink makes it lovely and chilled.
- Any sugar, sugar substitute, maple syrup or honey can be used to sweeten this drink.
- Any plant based milk will work in this recipe.
Serving: 1glass | Calories: 205kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.04g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.03g | Sodium: 30mg | Potassium: 138mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g