How To Keep Cooked Tapioca Pearls Fresh
Be sure to leave enough syrup to cover your pearls though this is to ensure they keep their flavour during the cool down period.
How to keep cooked tapioca pearls fresh. How to refrigerate cooked tapioca pearls a trick to keep cooked boba fresh that most bubble tea shops use is to keep them immersed in a simple sugar syrup so that they will stay fresh in the fridge for several days. The best method of storing tapioca pearls is to keep them inside the original package as long as you are not using them. Why are my pearls too soft or too hard.
Once you open the pack you should be very careful to store tapioca pearls properly. For fresh pearls they should be consumed within 4 hours otherwise they may become too soft. For the small sized pearls cook for 10 minutes and let them sit for 5 minutes.
You can store them at room temperature and covered in sugar syrup fructose to ensure the pearls do not start sticking to one another. While cooking tapioca pearls have to be well cooked to maintain the soft and chewy texture. When you re ready to cook your pearls pour the syrup into a saucepan with enough water to fully immerse the pearls.
Keep them in your syrup and cover tightly with plastic wrap or transfer to an airtight container. Our recommendation for the large tapioca pearls is to cook for 30 minutes and let them sit for another 35 minutes.