Thandai kulfi recipe with step by step photos. Sharing a very very tasty rich and creamy thandai kulfi recipe for holi 2017. This year I like to share some recipes for holi 2017 and starting with this easy and rich thandai kulfi recipe.
As you all know thandai is a very rich and tasty drink made with milk, various nuts, poppy seeds and spices. Thandai is significantly prepared for holi festival and mahashivratri. I have already shared thandai recipe here so here comes an easy thandai flavored kulfi recipe this year.
To make thandai kulfi recipe first let us prepare the thandai masala. If you are intending to store thandai masala for sometime then make dry powder. If it is for just making this thandai kulfi, add 1/4 cup milk and make a paste. Once the thandai masala is made rest is very easy yet some time consuming. Though simmering and reducing the milk for making kulfi is time consuming, the taste is unparalleled. No short cut recipes using cream or condensed milk can match the authentic way of making kulfi reducing the milk. Adding a tablespoon or 2 of unsweetened khoya takes your kulfi to another level. If you do not have khova you can add condensed milk or 2 bread slices crumbled very well.
Serve thandai kulfi once frozen as dessert.
Here is how to make thandai kulfi recipe with step by step photos. Also check easy bread kulfi recipe.
Step by step thandai kulfi recipe.
1. Dry roast almonds, cashes and pistachios for 6-7 minutes in low flame. Once cooled grind together with poppy seeds, cardamoms, fennel seeds, peppercorns and melon seeds. This powder can be stored for some time OR grind all the ingredients to a fine paste with 1/4 cup milk.
2. take milk in a wide sauce pan. Bring it to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add sugar, thandai masala powder and mix well. Now simmer till 3 cups of milk is reduced to 1 1/2 cups. This may take around 30 minutes. While simmering be sure to scrape the sides and collect the malai and add it back to the simmering milk.
3. Once the milk is reduced, add khoya and mix thoroughly. Add silvered almonds and pistachios. Cool to room temperature.
4. Pour the milk in kulfi moulds and freeze for 8 hours or overnight. Once frozen, show the kulfi moulds under running water. Kulfi will slide off easily, insert sticks and serve thandai kulfi immediately.
Thandai kulfi recipe card below:
Thandai kulfi recipe | Holi 2017 recipes
1 CUP = 250 ml
Ingredients
- 3 cups whole milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened khoya
- 1/4 cup finely chopped almonds and pistachios
- For thandai masala
- 1/8 cup almonds
- 1/8 cup pistachios
- 15 cashews
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon peppercorns
- 6 cardamoms
- 1/8 teaspoon saffron strands
- 1 teaspoon melon seeds
Instructions
- Dry roast almonds, cashes and pistachios for 6-7 minutes in low flame. Once cooled grind together with poppy seeds, cardamoms, fennel seeds, peppercorns and melon seeds. This powder can be stored for some time OR grind all the ingredients to a fine paste with 1/4 cup milk.
- Take milk in a wide sauce pan. Bring it to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add sugar, thandai masala powder and mix well. Now simmer till 3 cups of milk is reduced to 1 1/2 cups. This may take around 30 minutes. While simmering be sure to scrape the sides and collect the malai and add it back to the simmering milk.
- Once the milk is reduced, add khoya and mix thoroughly. Add silvered almonds and pistachios. Cool to room temperature.
- Pour the milk in kulfi moulds and freeze for 8 hours or overnight. Once frozen, show the kulfi moulds under running water. Kulfi will slide off easily, insert sticks and serve thandai kulfi immediately.
Notes
2. You can make popsicles if you do not have kulfi molds
3. You can even set kulfi in small earthen pots
Nutrition
Baradakanta says
Very easy kulfi recipe. Perfect coolant for summer.
Ankita Katiyar says
Plz suggest the thandai masala quantity, if I used store bought.🙏🏼