Rose Milk is a popular refreshing summer beverage made with milk and homemade rose syrup. Add in a scoop of ice cream, sabja seeds and you are ready to beat this summer heat. Learn how to make this cooling, soothing rose milk recipe with my easy to follow step-by-step pictures & video.
Rose Milk Recipe
There are times when rose milk was my absolute saviour. During my school days and my late night study sessions, I used to drink gallons of it and not get bored. Mom makes a jar of rose milk for me and my friends. Good old times!
About Rose Milk
Rose milk is a popular summer beverage made with milk, rose syrup and ice cream. You can easily buy readymade rose syrup in super markets. It is a combination of sugar, water, rose extract and artificial food colouring boiled until syrupy.
Making homemade rose syrup is so easy and cost efficient too. All you need is to boil sugar and water until single string consistency and add in your flavourings. Rose milk is an absolute favorite one among kids. Added bonus, you can make the syrup in bulk and store in fridge and use it whenever you want.
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Ingredients for Rose Syrup & Rose Milk
Sugar
Refined White Sugar is main ingredients in making rose milk. I don't recommend adding brown sugar in this recipe because it may affect the colour of the end product.
Water
Typically I use 1 cup sugar and ½ cup water. This ratio makes the perfect simple syrup in less than 5 mins.
Milk
Use full fat creamy whole milk in this recipe. Make sure you boil your milk and cool it completely in fridge. Because rose milk taste great when served cold.
Rose Extract
I use clear rose extract in my rose milk. Start with ½ tsp and add more if needed.
Pink Food Colour
Add preferably natural pink food colouring. You can easily find them in super market, health food store or online.
Why you will love this recipe?
Rose milk has lots of health benefits in them as well. It has a natural cooling tendency which is why it is consumed a lot during harsh summer season. Also rose helps to aid digestion and soothing to our body. If you are concerned about the artificial food colours, you can opt to choose natural food colours that are widely available in the market.
If you prefer to make it completely natural - No worries, I got you covered. A recipe for homemade rose syrup made with beetroot is included in this blog post. I came up with this beet milk which taste exactly like rose milk plus it is super healthy for your kids.
Expert Tips for Perfect Rose Milk
Milk - Use full fat milk which gives you creamy texture. Boil milk and then chill them in fridge.
Rose Syrup - add as much rose syrup as you prefer, the more syrup you use, the sweeter the drink will be.
Ice cream - a scoop of vanilla ice cream can be added over the rose milk. Rose milk with ice cream is a popular summer beverage option.
Ice cubes - If your milk is not chilled, adding ice cubes to rose milk when blending makes it creamy and thick.
Rose Milk Recipe (Step-wise pictures)
Rose Milk using Homemade Rose Syrup
1)For making rose milk, first step you need to make rose syrup. You can buy rose syrup in stores but making it yourselves is super easy. First take sugar in a sauce pan.
2)Add in water.
3)Heat sugar and water until it gets one string consistency. When you dip the spoon in the syrup and lift it, the last drop falling from the spoon should resembles a string like. It will take around 4 to 5 mins of boiling.
4)Now take it off the heat and add in rose extract.
5)Add in pink food colour. If you are not into using artificial food colours, natural food colours are available in the market. You can use that.
6) Let the syrup cool to room temperature and store in a clean bottle. Your homemade rose syrup is done.
7)Now lets make rose milkshake. Take cold milk in a blender jar.
8)Pour in rose syrup.
9)Blend till creamy.
Rose Milk Syrup Using Beetroot
Store bought rose syrup or homemade has artificial food colouring added, which is not a better choice for kids. So I came up with this beet milk which taste exactly like rose milk but made from beetroots. It is super easy to make at home as well.
1)Take peeled and cubed beetroot in a blender jar.
2)Add water to beetroot and blend till fine.
3)Use a fine mesh sieve to filter the beetroot puree.
4)Transfer the beetroot juice to a sauce pan.
5)Add in sugar
6)Boil for 5 to 10 mins till syrupy.
7)Once the syrup thickens, take it off the heat and add in rose extract.
8)Rose syrup using beetroots is ready. Cool it completely and store in an air tight bottle.
9)Just mix few spoonful of the syrup with cold milk and stir to combine.
10)Serve.
Variations you can try
Here is a collection of few more recipes which you can try with the classic rose milk. Few of my favorite ways to use rose milk is to make popsicles, milkshakes and sharbath.
Nungu rose milk (palmyra palm or ice apple rose milk)
Palmyra palm fruit has a natural jelly like texture. It is called as ice apple, palm fruit, nungu or jelly palm. Usually nungu which you buy from shops is sold with skins on, peel off the skin and chop it into small pieces which resembles "nata de coco". You can mix the chunks with chilled rose milk and enjoy. Tender coconut flesh can be mixed with rose milk too.
Sabja Rose Milk
Sabja seeds has natural cooling benefits in them. Soak sabja seeds in cold water for 10 mins until it swells up. Mix sabja with rose milk and enjoy sabja rose milk cold. This is one of the popular beverage made with rose milk, you can use chia seeds instead of sabja.
Rose Milk Popsicles
Made a large batch of rose milk, then try this rose milk popsicles. Just pour prepared rose milk in popsicle moulds and freeze them. Thats it. Kids will go crazy over these rose milk popsicles.
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Rose Milk Recipe | Homemade Rose Syrup Recipe
Ingredients
Rose Milk with Homemade Rose Syrup
- 2 cups Milk
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ cup Water
- 2 tsp Rose Extract
- ½ tsp Pink Food colour
- Vanilla Ice cream (optional)
Rose Milk with Homemade Beetroot Syrup
- 2 Beetroots
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Water
- 2 tsp Rose Extract
Instructions
Rose Milk with Homemade Rose Syrup
- Start by making the syrup. Take sugar and water in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Stir till the sugar gets dissolved. Boil for 4 to 5 mins till the mixture turn syrupy. Take it off the heat and add in rose extract and pink food colour and mix well. Allow to cool completely. Now pour this into clean glass bottle and store in fridge and use accordingly.
- Now to make the shake. Take milk in a blender. Add required amount of rose syrup. if you are using ice cream you can add a scoop at this point. Blend till frothy Pour into glasses and serve cold.
Rose Milk with Homemade Beetroot Syrup
- Take beetroots and water in a blender and puree till smooth. Strain the juice. Now pour beetroot juice in a sauce pan, add sugar and boil for 5 to 6 mins till it gets syrupy. Now take it off the heat and add in rose extract. Now pour this into clean glass bottle and store in fridge and use accordingly.
- When serving, mix required amount of syrup with cold milk and serve.
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Siri
Hmmm..looks delicious. Love your blog
Mina Joshi
Wow - you are making me thirsty. I tend to use the ready made rose syrup as I hadn't realised how easy it is to make it at home.
Sharmilee! :)
Looks yum..my fav too
Dining Alone
I always see rose essence at the Asian market but have no idea what it was for, now I know. This looks colorful and tasty.
Namitha
This is so nostalgic. As soon as I read the title I was thinking about my school days 🙂
PriyaVaasu
Delicious Drink!!!those step by step pics really make it more tempting!!
meena
yummy again aarthi
and whats more u made rose syrup at home
and milk rose has always been a fav
even during my school days i also had it but just the differnce we bought ready made rose syrup and till now i buy ready but i think shud try at home now this one
love it
Hari Chandana
Woww... refreshing and yummy drink.. looks absolutely perfect !!
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Gayathri Anand
Rose milk shake : I did not expect ice cream in it ...YUMMY YUMMY . Lovely presentation ...looks so creamy
Carolina
I drank lots of this shake when i was studing too, I love it
Kisses
DivyaGCP
When I was a kid, every time when we go to restaurant will order this.. Love it!!
veena krishnakumar
love the colour. Looks very initing
The Pumpkin Farm
my dad's favorite drink...u have made this lovely
maha
looks yumm n new idea too....
Maha
maha
thanks for ur kind advice dear..
Kitchen Flavours
Love that color and that's an perfect summer recipe....
Jayanthi
The kiddo in me just wants to grab that glass of rose milk Aarthi. Lovely recipe and looks so delicious.
Uma@Trendy Relish
mmm. looks fabulous. Nice color.
Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi
I remember my mom making this for us. Good one.
J
Interesting! I wonder where I can get Rose Milk Essence here in the US...
Holly
Mmmm this looks delicious! I love the color!
Rasi
All the recipes have been totally fav of mine.. Rosemilk is fav..i miss TSR now 😀
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Hema
Delicious milk shake..
vrinda
Delicious n flavorful milkshake..
jeyashrisuresh
nice and yummy drink
Rosita Vargas
Lucen muy exquisitas me llevo las dos copas,estupenda receta refrescante,abrazos hugs,hugs.
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Good one for this summer!
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Shilpakiran
wow ..yum yum and just yum
Sudha Sabarish
Even i also love rose milk a lot.Will try soon.
Maayeka
delicious and colourful milk shake with ice cream..yummy..
Anjana
Preeti Garg
totally chilled treat for summer heat
Blackswan
Lovely Pink! I'm sure kids will love it 🙂
Hazel - Chicken in a Cherry Sauce
Never heard of a rose milkshake before but sounds wonderfully refreshing 🙂
vidhas
wOW!! AARTHI I HAVE BOUGHT ROSE SYRUP STILL NOW, THANKS FOR SHARING THE REFCIPE. LOOKS REFRESHING.
Janet@simplysogood
You have the most amazing posts. I just purchased some rose water. I can hardly wait to make this.
Kalyani
Rose milk brings back soooo many lovely childhood memories 🙂
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faseela
fabulous colorful drink...
Hemavathi Murari
So nice of this rose milk.
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Suma Gandlur
Looks yum!
Degchi
Pretty looking drink.
Jayasri Ravi
O' this reminds me of home, My Mami used to make this for us..., I never get this here..
Tabby
Wow! Astonishing looking milkshake! Thank you for the wonderful idea!
Manjula Bharath
wonderful recipe and so very tempting..
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Sharanya Skarp
Why we have to make syrub separately?we can't add rose essence directly while blending?
Aarthi
@Sharanya SkarpThis is a instant version, you can make that syrup and keep handy. Whenever you want to make rosemilk, just add that alone, you dont have to add any sugar or anything
Anonymous
Hi Aarthi... Is it possible to prepare the rose milk essence at home? if possible can you please post the same..
Anonymous
Aarthi, am looking forward for your reply. I have query about make of rosemilk essence at home...