Falooda is a popular sweet and cold drink from South Asia. It is made up of many ingredients such as rose syrup, vermicelli, basil seeds, jelly, fruits, nuts along with milk, ice-cream or kulfi. A special type of vermicelli made of arrowroot called falooda noodles is used for the drink. Traditionally, falooda is flavored with rose syrup, but it may be substituted with other flavors like saffron, mango or strawberry. It can be served either with ice-cream or kulfi.
South Vs North Challenge, brainchild of Divya Pramil of You Too Can Cook, is an group where each month two teams- South and North, challenge each other with a regional recipe. For this month’s SNC Challenge, Minnie of TheLady8Home, has challenged the South team with ice-cream falooda and and kulfi falooda and I chose the ice cream version. Lets check out how to make this popular drink easily at home.
Falooda
Ingredients
- Chilled milk – 1 cup
- Rose syrup – 4 tbsp
- Warm milk – 1 cup
- Saffron – 1/4 tsp
- Rose water – 2 tbsp
- Basil seeds / Sabja / Tukmaria – 2 tbsp
- Falooda noodles – a handful
- Almond – 5 to 6
- Pista – 8 to 10
- Cashew-nuts – 3 to 4
- Mixed fruits – 1/2 cup
- Strawberry jelly pieces – 1/2 cup
- Vanilla ice-cream – 4 scoops
- Cherries – 2
Instructions
- In a bowl mix the chilled milk and rose syrup. Refrigerate until assembling.
- In the warm milk add saffron and rose water. Mix and chill for an hour or more.
- Soak the basil seeds in 1 cup water for 1 hour or until they have plumped up.
- Cook the noodles in 3 cups of water until soft or as per the instructions in the packet.
- Drain and immerse the noodles in the saffron and rose water soaked milk. Refrigerate until assembling.
- Chop the fruits and nuts into small pieces and set aside.
To assemble the falooda
- Take two tall glasses and put some jelly pieces and top with 2 tbsp of fruits in each glass.
- Divide the noodles and add to the 2 glasses along with quarter cup of saffron milk. Top it with 2 tablespoons of basil seeds.
- Divide and pour the chilled rose syrup into the two glasses. Top it with 2 tbsp of fruits.
- Add 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream and pour the remaining saffron milk and noodles into the 2 glasses. Garnish with chopped nuts and cherries.
Notes
- I have used a fruit mix of apple, banana, pineapple, grapes and mango. Adding fruits is optional.
- The falooda was mildly sweet. If you want more sweetness, drizzle some more rose syrup.
- If falooda noodles in not available, you can use glass noodles or normal thin vermicelli.
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looks so tasty.. one my fav dessert
fab pics n yummmmm falooda..
refreshing dear
Falooda looks super yum, love it dear…
picture looks so tempting.
Falooda looks delicious.
wow superb presentation with cherries n delicious falooda…
Tempting yummy dessert..
Awesome pics u have captured it so well.Love the way those jellies are peeking through the glass.
That looks awesome such a lovely color,perfectly done
yummy Falooda…
Who can resist to those irresistible,pretty attractive falooda..
Wow wow yummy dear,love to grab those glasses…
falooda looks delicious…stunning clicks..
Feeling crazy by seeing this super tempting falooda…wonderful effort.
omg you are killing me with these beautiful looking tall glasses filled with delicious falooda 🙂 irresistible falooda's 🙂 tempting me dear !!
Just mouthwatering…looks delicious!
wow..looks inviting…nice presentation..
Lovely and tempting falooda indeed!! Love the crystals 🙂
Lovely… want to grab a glass
Loved it… Want to grab a glass…
wow lovely clicks and look's scrumptious 🙂
Very well clicked.