Description
A small swap like this one will save you tons of carbs and calories. These keto pearls are as close as you can get to the real thing without blowing your diet.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup of avocado oil (or any neutral oil), chilled
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 black tea bag
- 2 tsp sugar-free honey
- 1 tbsp unflavored gelatin
Instructions
- Place the avocado oil in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour. Ideally, you would do this the night before.
- Brew the tea by combining 1/2 cup hot water with 1 black tea bag. Let steep for 3-5 minutes. Discard the tea bag.
- Combine the brewed tea, gelatin, and honey in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat and then turn down to a simmer.
- Stir constantly until the mixture begins to thicken.
- Remove from the heat and let cool for 3-5 minutes.
- Remove the cold oil from the refrigerator. Suck up some of the tea mixture into the dropper.
- Submerge the tip of the dropper into the cold oil and gently squeeze a small ball of tea mixture into the oil. The keto pearl should sink to the bottom of the oil. Repeat until the dropper is empty.
- Continue loading the dropper with the tea mixture and creating keto pearls in the oil until you have used all the tea mixture.
- Strain the oil/keto pearl mixture through a strainer.
- Rinse the keto tapioca pearls under cold water briefly until the excess oil is rinsed off.
- Add the keto tapioca pearls to your favorite low-carb milk tea.
Notes
Use any sugar-free syrup you prefer. You could use keto maple honey or keto maple syrup. Make sure the sweetener you use easily dissolves without residue left behind.
Substitute the gelatin for agar agar to make these keto pearls vegetarian. Agar agar is not a perfect sub for gelatin as it produces a chewier, gummy texture. If you substitute, use 1/2 or 1/3 the amount of agar agar as you would gelatin. You may have to experiment a bit to get the exact texture you prefer.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 45 minutes