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Falooda

Rose flavored cold dessert beverage loaded with vermicelli, sweet basil (sabza/takmaria) seeds, milk, ice cream, nuts and rose syrup
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp Basil seeds (Sabja seeds or Falooda seeds)
  • 1 cup Boiled Vermicelli Special falooda sed is preferred
  • 4 cup Milk
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • 8 tsp Rose Syrup
  • 8 scoops Cashew Raisin Ice Cream plain vanilla ice cream would work too!
  • 1 cup Chopped nuts and raisins

Instructions

Prepare Millk

  • Bring milk to boil. Add sugar to boiling milk and simmer it for 5-6 minutes. Let it cool down and store it in the fridge for 2-4 hours to make it cold. Once the seeds are socked, they will be 4-5 times more in quantity.

Prepare basil seeds

  • Sock Basil seeds (Sabja seeds or Falooda seeds) in water for 20-30 minutes.
    tukmaria
  • Drain the water out once socked. Keep them aside or in the fridge.
    tukmaria soaked

Prepare Vermicelli

  • Cut Vermicelli or falooda save in 1-2 inches length if they are big long strings.
  • Boil them in water for 5-6 minutes.
  • Once boiled, drain the hot water out and rinse them with cold water to stop the cooking process. Keep it aside or in the fridge.

Assembly

  • Place 4 serving glasses or mason jars, place 1 tbsp of boiled vermicelli and one tbsp of socked basil seeds at the bottom.
  • Add 1 tsp of rose syrup.
  • Add ½ cup of prepared sweet milk.
  • Add one scoop of ice cream.
  • Now do the second layer of the same topping, 1 tbsp of vermicelli, 1 tbsp of basil seeds, 1 tsp of rose syrup, ½ cups of sweet milk and one scoop of ice cream. You can serve falooda with just one layer of everything, I like to do 2 layers!
  • Top falooda with chopped nuts and raising.
  • Serve it cold immediately!