India, June 18 -- Even if you're a hard core, no-frills coffee drinker, there's just something about calling for a tall, pretty glass of bubble tea and having your eyes and lips open up with child-like amusement as you go *glup-glup-glup* on the boba pearls stacked at the bottom, which keeps full-blown adults circling back to the slurp-able sweet treat.

But what if we told you, you could ditch your expensive rides to the mall and just make your own boba pearls at home? And it's not all that hard too!

Ingredients: Water - 1/4 cup, jaggery/brown sugar - 3tbsps, tapioca flour - 6tbsps

Method: Heat some water in a pan and add in the the jaggery and brown sugar. Let this completely caramalise, before you add in 3 tablespoons of the tapioca ...