Recipe : Homemade Delicious Badam And Lotus Seeds Kulfi | Indian Ice Cream Prep Time: 5 minutes + chilling Cook time: 15 to 20 minutes Recipe Cuisine: Indian Recipe Category: Frozen Dessert Yield: 10 Kulfi's

About the Recipe - Homemade Delicious Almond and Lotus Seeds Kulfi : Kulfi is a very popular dessert in India, also one of the traditional dessert. It is a frozen dairy dessert like ice cream. Its main ingredient is malai \ milk and the most common flavors are mango, cardamom, almonds, pistachio and saffron. Now a days kulfi comes in a fruit variations like orange, strawberry, chikoo, avocada and many more. Everyone can easily make at home, if they have milk and nuts (like badam, lotus, pista). I have tried the combination of badam and lotus seeds, it came out perfectly with the twist of demerara sugar. You can follow my recipe as below.

Ingredients :

Almonds \ Badams - 50 gm Lotus Seeds \ Thamarai Vidai - 1 cup Milk - 1 liter + extra Saffron - 1/2 tsp Demerara Sugar - 3/4 cup Cornflour - 1 tbsp

Method :

Preparation : (To make the almonds \ badam's paste) Soak the almond in hot water for an hour, then peel off the outer skin. (Image 1 and 2) Then grind the almond into fine paste with required milk and keep aside. (Image 3 and 4)

Steps To Make The Almond And Lotus Seeds Kulfi : In a heavy bottom kadhai, boil the milk. (Image 5) Add in the prepared almond paste, mix well and turn the flame into simmer. (Image 6) Add in the crushed saffron and cook for about 5mins. (Image 7) Add in the demerara sugar and cook till its dissolved completely. (Image 8)

Meantime, microwave the lotus seeds for an minute and break into tiny pieces, keep aside. (Image 9 and 10)

Separately mix the cornflour with 2 to 3 tbsp of water. (Image 11) Mix the cornflour water into badam-milk mixture, mix well and cook for about 3mins or till the mixture turns semi-liquid consistency. (Image 12) Finally stir the crushed lotus seeds and remove from the flame. (Image 13) Then cool the kulfi mixture completely. (Image 14)

Fill the kulfi molds and freeze for 6 hours (+ or -) or overnight. (Image 15) To demolds the kulfi's, insert the bamboo stick in to the center of each kulfi. Then carefully run a knife around the kulfi or rub the molds between your palms and pull out the stick. (Image 16) Serve immediately.

Related Kulfi Recipes : Mango Kulfi, Malai Bread Kulfi, Strawberry Kulfi.

Published: June 3, 2015

By Kalais