Rose Milk Recipe

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.

Video for Rose Milk & Rose Syrup

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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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