No Boba? No Problem: Make Bubble Tea With Frozen Blueberries

Two refreshing recipes with jasmine tea—one shaken, one stirred

Frozen blueberries are ideal ice cubes: They get the job of cooling the drink done, then offer their soggy bodies as a sweet, tart finish. ZOLDATOFF/shutterstock

Drinkers of bubble tea are bracing for the worst. Boba balls, the tapioca-based spheres that collect at the bottom of a cup of this wildly popular Taiwanese beverage, are reportedly in short supply.

Bubble tea is a combination of milk and tea, shaken or stirred to create the namesake bubbles. The boba balls sink to the bottom of the cup, waiting to be sucked up through an extra-wide straw and chewed with the sips of tea.