Thandai Recipe with step by step pictures. This is the perfect drink for the festive occasion of Holi. This drink is packed with dry nuts and flavored with fragrant spices.
Thandai Recipe
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. 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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Ingredients for Thandai
- Milk - ½ liter
- Sugar - 3 tbsp
- 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 tbsp for soaking saffron
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.
How to Make Thandai
- 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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Thandai Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ liter Milk
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- Pistachios few tsp chopped finely for garnishing
- Saffron a pinch for garnishing
- ½ cup Water
- Rose Essence few drops
- For Masala:
- 20 Badam / Almonds
- 15 Cashew nuts
- 1 tsp Poppy Seeds / Khus Khus / Kasa Kasa
- 1 tsp Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf
- ½ tsp Whole Pepper
- 5 Cardamom Pods
- Saffron a pinch
- 2 tbsp Milk for soaking saffron
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition
Thandai Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Bring milk to a boil |
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| Pour it into a jug |
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| add in sugar |
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| mix well and leave it to cool down in a fridge |
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| Take saffron in a bowl |
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| add few spoons of milk over it and steep it for 10 mins |
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| Now bring ½ cup of water to a boil |
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| Take cashews in a bowl |
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| Add in almonds / badam |
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| cardamom pods |
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| add in poppy seeds in it |
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| add in fennel seeds |
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| and some whole pepper |
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| pour half cup of water over it |
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| leave this to soak for 15 mins |
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| now it is all soaked |
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| Take this in a blender |
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| make it into a fine puree |
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| add this puree into the milk |
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| and the half of the saffron milk |
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| mix well and leave this for 15 mins |
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| Now strain this milk |
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| extract as much liquid as possible |
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| this is the extracted milk |
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| i transfered it into a jug |
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| add the remaining saffron milk |
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| and rose essence |
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| mix well |
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| chill this for a hour |
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| serve |
Waheebayazkhan
Nice thandai
Waheebayazkhan
Nice one thandai
Anonymous
aarthi your are less sugar na is it ok?
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes it is good