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Thandai Recipe-How to make Thandai-Holi Special

March 12, 2017 by PadhuSankar 3 Comments

Thandai/Sardai is a very delicious cold drink made during Holi festival. It is prepared with a mixture of almonds, pistachio, whole peppercorns, fennel seeds, melon seeds, cardamom powder, saffron, milk and garnished with dried rose petals. Last year I wanted to make thandai for holi but could not make it. This year made it at the last minute. I got this recipe from North Indians living here but adjusted the ingredients to suit my taste. The result was awesome. It tastes best when chilled. Today we will learn how to make Thandai following this very simple and easy recipe. 

Thandai Recipe-How to make Thandai

Thandai Recipe


Thandai Recipe

 Prep Time : 10 mins

 Cook Time : 5 mins 
 Serves: 2
 Recipe Category: Beverage
 Recipe Cuisine: Indian
 Author:Padhu Sankar

   Ingredients needed

   Milk – 2 cups (1/2 liter)
   Saffron strands – 6-7
   Sugar – 3 tbsp or as needed

   To Grind

   Almonds – 8-10
   Pistachio – 8-10
   Cashew nuts – 6-7
   Khus Khus (kasa kasa) – 1 tbsp

   To Powder

   Whole black peppercorns – 8-10
   Cardamom – 5
   Fennel seeds (sombu) – 1/2 tsp
   Cinnamon – 1 inch stick

   For Garnishing

   Dry Rose Petals – 6-7

Preparation


Boil milk, add sugar and mix well until it dissolves. Leave it to cool.

Soak saffron in a little hot milk and set aside.

Once milk is warm, mix the saffron flavored milk with the rest of the milk.

Thandai Recipe

Soak cashew nuts, pistachio, almonds in hot water for 1-2 hours. Soak khus khus also in hot water separately. Remove the skin of almonds and pistachio. Then grind everything together with a little milk along with khus khus to a paste. Set aside.

How to make Thandai

Grind cardamom (discard the pod), whole black pepper, cinnamon and fennel seeds to fine powder. (I have used 1/8 tsp cinnamon powder in place of cinnamon stick).

Method 


Now add the ground paste, ground powder to the milk and mix well.

Thandai -Holi special

Garnish with dried rose petals. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours and serve chilled.

Thandai tastes best when served chilled. Enjoy making thandai this Holi.

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  1. shobha arvind

    March 12, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Superb recipe . Will definitely try . Melon seeds are available easily ?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      March 13, 2017 at 11:46 am

      I did not use melon seeds. It will be available in super markets.

      Reply
  2. shobha arvind

    March 13, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    Thank you . Ok will try and let u know the outcome .

    Reply

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