Chai tea smoothies with boba are entirely too delicious for my own good

Posted on | November 4, 2009

Since having acquired insta-boba, I’ve had an increased desire to make bubble tea smoothies. The instant-style boba takes five minutes max on the stove before they’re soft and squishy and all sorts of other adjectives desirable for boba to possess. (All this while my “thirty+ minutes to cook” boba sit stoically in the cabinet, awaiting a day when I possess more foresight). Anyhow, I recently purchased some chai tea packets. Or thai tea packets, they seem to be used interchangeably.

Chai/thai tea packet

These things are wondrous. First off, they allow me to drink chai tea without having to pay $2-$3 a pop from a shop. Second, they already include all the things that would otherwise cause making it tasty to be super-complicated for me. I.E. the cream and sugar is included. This allows me to make boba tea smoothies from these things super easy as well. I struggled with the proportions for making taro tea not too long ago, lacking the sucrose and the non-dairy creamer, resorting to dumping in vast amounts of sugar and milk (no non-dairy for me, thank you!) in a haphazard fashion to get my desperately craved taro bubble tea smoothie. It eventually worked, at least, but I feared having to begin the process anew with the chai tea. No need, though. I just dumped in a packet (or two packets, for those of us who like ginormous smoothies) plus some hot water to dissolve, and blended it up. Once that was done, I added in a respectable amount of ice, wherein ‘respectable’ means enough to make it slushy but not so much as to dilute it, so around 4-5 cubes.

chai bubble tea

The result? So freaking good! Totally worth the almost 400 calories!

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