Thandai Recipe / Thandai Drink Recipe - Holi Special Recipes

I totally forgot about holi iteself. I was too lazy to cook new recipes for it till yesterday. Luckily i had a sweet potato jamun recipe on hand so i shared it. But somehow the mind of the food blogger will make you do it, so today morning i made this traditional holi special drink thandai. I have already made the dough for mawa gujiya and after publishing this post, i will be rushing into the kitchen to make that. Will be sharing it in a few hours.

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This drink is sweet, spicy and full of flavour, you can never ever resist it. So delicious. There are certain spices which should go in this drink, they are fennel, pepper, khus khus, saffron, rose essence..It makes it really tasty and refreshing.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you..

Preparation Time : 20 mins

Chilling Time : 1 to 2 hours

Serves : 2 to 3

Ingredients:

Milk - ½ liter

Sugar - 3 tblspn

Pistachios few tsp chopped finely for garnishing

Saffron a pinch for garnishing

Water - ½ cup

Rose Essence few drops

For Masala:

Badam / Almonds - 20

Cashewnuts - 15

Poppy Seeds / Khus Khus / Kasa Kasa - 1 tsp

Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 1 tsp

Whole Pepper - ½ tsp

Cardamom Pods - 5

Saffron a pinch

Milk - 2 tblspn for soaking saffron

Method:

Bring milk to a boil, add in sugar and mix well. Chill this till cold.

Soak saffron in 2 tblspn of milk and set aside.

Take badam, cashews, poppy seeds, fennel seeds, pepper, cardamom in a bowl and pour in ½ cup of hot water over it and soak it for 15 mins. Now take this in a blender and puree smoothly.

Pour this mix into the milk and add a tblspn of saffron milk and mix well. Leave this to sit for 15 mins.

Now strain this and add in remaining saffron milk and rose essence. Chill this for a hour

Serve with some pista and saffron toppings.

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