Falooda

This milky rosewater-infused cold dessert is popular in the subcontinent. It is served in a tall glass, with layers of rose syrup, pieces of maghoot jelly, ice-cream, milk and nuts. In Afghanistan, falooda is sold in small, colourfully decorated ice-cream shops known as shir yakh feroshees.

This recipe has several different components – rose syrup, soaked basil seeds and maghoot jelly – which are all made separately and assembled together to make falooda.