Rose badam milk recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian |  Recipe Category: Drinks
Prep Time:  2 hrs soaking time + 20 mins  |  Cook time: 20 mins   |  Serves: 2  | Author: Raks anand

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Rose badam milk is a cold drink made with Almonds, milk and added with rose flavor. I have added saffron, cardamom and there is a very subtle flavour of edible camphor too which is optional.

Ingredients

• Milk – 3 cups
• Almonds/ Badam – 14
• Rose milk syrup – 1/4 cup
• Sugar – 1 tbsp
• Cardamom – 1
• Saffron – Few strands
• Edible camphor – Mustard size (optional)

Method

1. Soak badam for 2-3 hours and peel off the skin.
2. Reserve 4 badams for chopping. Grind the rest of it with 1/4 cup milk, very smoothly.
3. Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan. Soak saffron in 2 tbsp of warm milk, while the milk boils.
4. Add the saffron milk, sugar, powdered cardamom (edible camphor if adding) to the milk.
5. Finely chop badam we reserved and add to the milk.
6. Add ground badam and milk mixture and bring to boil. Simmer for a minute and switch off the flame.
7. Cool down completely and add rose syrup, mix. Refrigerate until serving.

Tips

• For three cups milk, 10 almonds are just enough for flavour and richness. If you add more, it will make the drink thick and strong.
• The 3 badam we chop and add is the best I like in this drink. I love it while we are drinking, we get something to bite on. If you don’t like skip, but highly recommended.
• If you are concerned about artificial flavour, skip it and add rose water. add 1/4 cup in place of the rose syrup.
• Note that we have to add more sugar if rose water is added. My rose syrup is sweetened rose syrup.
• Since we add rose milk syrup, I add less sugar. The rose syrup can be adjusted according to the sweetness you need.
• Keep stirring after adding badam mixture as it might get stuck. Also keep an eye so that it doesn’t overflows.