This White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding recipe is just like the creamy classic, but with a hint of green tea and sweetened with decadent white chocolate. This make ahead dessert is sure to become a family favorite!

Matcha Tapioca Pudding next to bowl of whipped cream and chopped pistachios

How to make the best tapioca pudding recipe

I wish I could say this tapioca pudding recipe is based on an old family recipe and how it was one of my favorite desserts growing up, but it's not.

My family never ate tapioca pudding, instead we indulged in fresh fruit picked off the trees in our backyard.

That's how we used to roll in tropical south Florida.

I updated this classic dessert my way by turning it into a decadent White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding.

Adding the white chocolate totally takes this simple dessert to a higher level of deliciousness.

Makes me wish I grew up in a house where we ate tapioca pudding every Sunday night after dinner.

Maybe I need to make it a new tradition in my house.

4 bowls of White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding with whipped cream on top

What is Matcha

Matcha is a finely ground green tea powder and it's one of my favorite ingredients to use in desserts (like last year when I made these matcha snickerdoodle blondies).

Lately, I've been jumping at the chance to make a tapioca pudding as an Easter dessert recipe and also think it's an ideal way to highlight the matcha.

Matcha is a green tea powerhouse because the whole leaves are consumed, as opposed to just seeping the dried leaves and drinking the liquid.

It's loaded with all sorts of antioxidants and other health benefits.

It helps to lower inflammation and blood pressure, alleviates depression, and even aids in weight loss.

So it's PERFECT in a dessert!

Clear cup of Tapioca Pudding with a spoon full of Matcha tea powder next to it

Matcha does contain caffeine, so it you may not want to eat this dessert too close to bedtime.

Tapioca pudding is sometimes eaten as a breakfast (no joke). After all, it does has whole eggs and milk in it and that sounds like a morning meal to me.

I also make mine with organic milk, farm fresh eggs and an organic matcha green tea powder.

If that's not a legit breakfast, then I don't know what is.

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A different kind of chocolate pudding recipe

But what about the white chocolate? I use a high quality Valrhona chocolate and substituted a small amount of it for the white sugar typically in a traditional tapioca pudding.

White chocolate may not have as many health benefits as my favorite dark, but it does have a few, so it's not a total zero.

Love that this recipe is getting healthier and healthier by the minute...YAY to easy healthy desserts! (DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor...obviously)

Creamy Tapioca Pudding on a spoon ready to eat

How to choose the right tapioca balls

I feel as if this is one of my best easy dessert recipes, but it's also because I love tapioca balls! I'm pretty addicted to bubble tea and love the large boba balls.

These are the same, just smaller. I found out bubble tea was created by a woman, who worked as a brand manager for a tea house in Taiwan, mixed her Fen Yuan dessert (a Taiwanese tapioca pudding) into her iced tea.

Guess now it's kind of full circle with adding green tea to this tapioca pudding recipe.

Bob's Red Mill Small Pearl Tapioca is the only one I use because it's all natural.

Make this White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding as an Easter recipe this weekend or whenever the family wants a comforting, homemade dessert. Not a matcha fan? Leave it out for a white chocolate tapioca pudding!

Recipe

White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding

White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding is just like the creamy classic dessert but with a hint of green tea and sweetened with decadent white chocolate. This make ahead dessert is sure to become a family favorite!

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 1

Cook Time: 30

Total Time: 1 30

Servings: servings

Calories: 278kcal

Author: Karrie | Tasty Ever After

Ingredients

▢ ½ cup small pearl tapioca
▢ ½ cup heavy cream
▢ 2 ½ cups whole milk
▢ 2 teaspoons organic matcha green tea powder
▢ 3 ounces white chocolate chips or chopped
▢ ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
▢ ¼ teaspoon sea salt
▢ 2 eggs separate yolks from the whites
▢ 1 recipe whipped cream (for topping pudding)

optional topping: chopped pistachios

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Instructions

Place ½ cup heavy cream, ½ cup whole milk, and ½ cup tapioca pearls in a medium saucepan and stir well. Let the pearls soak at room temperature for 1 hour to soften.
Add the remaining 2 cups of milk to the tapioca mixture and stir until thoroughly combined. Heat over medium heat and cook, while stirring frequently for about 10 minutes, or until mixture starts to simmer. Be careful and don't allow the mixture to boil.
Once mixture simmers, reduce heat to low and whisk in the 2 teaspoons matcha powder. Add 3 ounces white chocolate, ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract, and ¼ teaspoon salt and mix until chocolate is melted..
Whisk the 2 egg yolks in a medium sized bowl until smooth, about a minute. Temper the yolks by slowly whisking in a little of the hot milk tapioca mixture. Stir the tempered egg yolks into the tapioca mixture and cook uncovered, stirring frequently for about 15-20 minutes, or until the tapioca pearls have softened and the mixture thickens. Remove pan from the heat.
Whisk the 2 egg whites in a medium bowl until soft peaks form and gently fold them into the pudding while it's still hot.
Cool pudding to room temperature (mixture will thicken once cooled). Top with whipped cream and chopped pistachios (optional), and serve immediately.
For chilled pudding: put mixture in a bowl or individual containers, cover, and place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Recipe Notes & Tips:

Store leftovers covered with plastic wrap in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Nutrition Facts

White Chocolate Matcha Tapioca Pudding

Amount Per Serving

Calories 278 Calories from Fat 144

% Daily Value*

Fat 16g25%

Saturated Fat 9g45%

Cholesterol 94mg31%

Sodium 181mg8%

Potassium 209mg6%

Carbohydrates 25g8%

Sugar 14g16%

Protein 6g12%

Vitamin A 600IU12%

Calcium 167mg17%

Iron 0.8mg4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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