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Jigarthanda Recipe | Madurai Jigarthanda Recipe

Jigarthanda Recipe with step by step pictures. Learn how to make authentic madurai jigarthanda at home.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients

For Jigarthanda Ice cream

  • 2 litre Milk
  • ½ cup Milk
  • 2 tbsp Sugar (for Caramel)
  • ½ cup Cream
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Extract

For Serving

  • 2 tbsp Badam Pisin
  • 1 cup Water
  • Nannari Sarbath
  • Reduced Milk see notes
  • Regular Milk

Instructions

Jigarthanda Ice cream

  • Start by making jigarthanda ice cream. Take milk in a large pot and bring it to a full boil.Once it starts to boil, add in sugar and boil for 20 mins till it is reduced by half. Leave around 11/2 cups of milk in the pot and remove the remaining milk in a bowl and set aside.
  • Now Boil the milk in the pot continuously till it thickens into khoya like texture. You may add 2 tbsp of sugar to milk when it thickens. So khoya forms faster.
  • Now to the thickened khoya add the reserved milk and mix well. Meanwhile make caramel in a separate pan. Heat 2 tbsp sugar in a pan on heat till it melts and forms into dark caramel colour. Pour this into the ice cream and mix well. Add in cream and vanilla and mix well. Pour this into a freezer safe container and freeze for 6 hours.
  • Once frozen remove the ice cream from freezer and scoop into a blender.Blend on high for 2 mins. Pour it back into the freezer safe container and freeze again till solid. Scoop and serve.

Blooming Badam Pisin

  • Wash badam Pisin well. Add it to a bowl. Cover with water and let it soak for 1 hour. Strain and set aside.

Serving Jigarthanda

  • Take a serving glass. Spoon in some badam Pisin, add nannari syrup, reduced milk, regular milk and jigarthanda ice cream. Serve immediately.

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Notes

How to Make Reduced Milk

Boil 500 ml milk with 2 tbsp sugar till reduced by half. You can infact make caramel with 1 tbsp of sugar and milk into the reduced milk for caramel colour. This is how you make reduced milk.
Instead of reduced milk you can use few more optional ingredients.
  • Mix ½ cup milk with ½ cup sweetened condensed milk and you can use this.
  • You can use evaporated milk instead of reduced milk. I would mix couple tbsp of sugar with evaporated milk to sweeten it a little.
  • You can remove a cup worth of the ice cream mixture before freezing it and use as reduced milk.

Tips & Tricks

  • The ice cream can be made a week in advance and used.
  • Soak badam Pisin in water for at least 1 hour. You can even even soak overnight.
  • You can use store bought nannari syrup 
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