Thandai

Ingredients

• Badam - 1 cup (Soaked Overnight)
• Milk - 1 cup
• Pepper Corns - 2 tsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Sugar - as required
• Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
• Fennel Seeds - 1 tsp
• Poppy seeds (gasa gasa) - 1 tsp
• Water as needed

Method

• Soak badam in hot water for 2 hrs or soak overnight.
• Peel the outer skin of badam.
• Using blender, nicely blend the badam with the preboiled milk and sugar.
• To this add the other mentioned ingredients and blend again nicely.
• Filter this mixture concentrate.
• Again add some more milk and blend nicely again and filter the concentrate.
• Repeat this process 3 to 4 times, till all the essence of the ingredients is filtered.
• To this concentrate, you can add cold milk or water and serve chilled.

Sending this to the event CWS - Fennel Seeds by Priya