Thandai (Cold Milk & Herb Beverage) Holi Special Recipe MY RATING - 9.5/10 Source - www.holifestival.org Ingredients: 1 1/2 litres water homerecipes.in 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup milk 1 tbsp. almonds 1 tbsp. kharbooj/tarbooj seeds skinned (commercially available) (these are skinned dried seeds of watermelon and cantaloupes) 1/2 tbsp. khuskhus (poppy seeds) 1/2 tbsp. saunf (aniseed) 1/2 tsp. cardamom powder or 15 whole pods 1/2 tsp. rose water (optional) 1 tsp. peppercorns whole 1/4 cup dried or fresh rose petals (gulkand variety) Method: Soak sugar in 1/2 litre of the water used. Keep aside. Wash clean all other dry ingredients, except cardamom if using powder. Soak in 2 cups of remaining water. Keep aside. Allow all soaked items to stand for at least 2 hours. Grind all soaked ingredients to a very fine paste. (not sugar) Use a stone grinder (manual or electric) if possible. When the paste is very fine, mix remaining
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