Thandai is a Cold Milk Drink prepared with a mixture of almonds, fennel seeds, watermelon kernels, rose petals, pepper, vetiver seeds, cardamom, saffron, milk and sugar. There are variants of thandai and the most common are badam (almond).
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Ingredients For Thandai Powder
- 15 Pieces of Almonds
- 10 Pieces of Pistachios
- 10 pieces Cashew
- Pinch of Cardamom Powder
- 1 tea spoon Fennel Seeds
- Few Dried Rose Petals
- 2 table spoon Melon Seeds
- 1 table spoon Poppy Seeds
- 5 Pepper Corns
Ingredients For Thandai
- 4-5 cup Full cream Milk
- 3/4 cup Sugar or depends on your taste
- Pinch of Nutmeg Powder
- Few Saffron Threads
- 1 tea spoon Rose water
How to Make Thandai?
process:
- Add all powder ingredients into the blender and blend it and make a powder.
- Take a 1 cup of milk and soak the powder for 2-3 hours.
- Blend it again to make a smooth paste.
- In another pot add blended mixture and rest of the milk and leave it in freeze for chilled.
- Strain the soaked milk
- Add nutmeg powder, sugar, rose water and saffron threads and Stir properly.
- Thandai is ready. Garnish it with saffron, rose petals and dry fruits.
- Serve Chilled.