# Watermelon Popping Boba

A fun and delicate dessert with a liquid center, using the spherification technique to create popping boba with watermelon juice.

- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 small watermelon
- green tea
- sugar
- sodium citrate
- sodium alginate
- calcium chloride
- cold water

## Instructions

1. Cut a small watermelon.
2. Blend the watermelon with green tea and sugar into juice.
3. Add sodium citrate and sodium alginate to the juice.
4. Blend on high speed for one more minute.
5. Chill the juice in the fridge overnight to get rid of the bubbles.
6. Dissolve some calcium chloride into cold water.
7. Drop some watermelon juice mixture into a small spoon.
8. Gently shake the spoon under the calcium chloride water.

## Equipment

- blender
- fridge
- small spoon

## Tips

- Chill the juice in the fridge overnight to get rid of bubbles.
- For making spheres, keep the syringe at a perfect angle and constant height.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kM4N8nsDtoU
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/7abd6745-ac14-42ba-ac95-e0d4c76b4ae9
- Extracted: 2026-04-10

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