Name: Falooda
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: yellow food colouring; 30 g (1 oz) basil seeds; 1 tablespoon icing (confectioners’) sugar; almonds, chopped (optional); pistachios, chopped (optional); 6 tablespoons ice cream or thick (double/heavy) cream; 1 litre (4 cups) milk, chilled; mint leaves (optional); 220 g (1 cup) sugar; 2 teaspoons rosewater, or to taste; pink food colouring; 2 teaspoons agar-agar

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Food of India

By Priya Wickramasinghe

Published 2005

About

Sweet drinks, Indian Muslim in origin, are often drunk during the month-long ramadan fast. In this rosewater drink, the sugar is an energy source that is highly recommended while fasting. Falooda can also be made with falooda noodles instead of the agar jelly.

Ingredients

Rose Syrup

220 g (1 cup) sugar
2 teaspoons rosewater, or to tas

Method

To make the rose syrup, put the sugar and 250 ml (1 cup) water in a large, heavy-based saucepan, bring to the boil and boil for 2 minutes. Add rosewater, to taste, and enough colouring to make a pink syrup