Thandai (Cold Beverage)

[indianvegan]

The festival of colours, Holi, is here.

Thandai -------Cold Beverage

Serves 4

~Ingredients

1 litre Soya milk
natural Sweetners like agave nectar etc.
50 gm almonds
50 gm pistachios
50 gm melon seeds
15 gm poppy seeds
A few dried rose petals
1 gm of saffron
1 tsp cardamom powder
1 tsp peppercorn powder, crushed finely
1 tsp saunf, powdered
A few drops kewra water (readily available in stores)

Method:

Allow the milk to chill and add sweetner.

Grind the other ingredients to a paste in mortar and pestle.

If time-pressed you can do it in a blender but the real taste comes from manually grinding them.

The dried rose petals should be well mixed in the paste.

Soak the poppy seeds in water before grinding.

Mix the ground paste into the milk. Stir the ingredients well. Add the kewra.

Serve chilled. NO straining.

N.B. : you can add Orange juice/Mango juice in it.

Manish Jain