Recipes for Indian festivals - Diwali drinks
 

Ingredients:

• 2 cups milk
• 10 Almonds
• Few strands of saffron
• 2 tsp sugar (more as per you taste)

Steps:

1. Blanch the almonds, peel and cut into thin slices, lengthwise

2. Soak saffron in 1tbsp warm milk for 10-15 minutes.

3. Bring milk to boil.

4. Add soaked saffron, sugar and almonds.

5. Let it simmer on slow flame for a minute.

6. Stir well.

7. Pour into cup, from a height.

8. This way a lot of froth will form on the milk.

9. Serve piping hot.

Ingredients:

• 1 apple, peeled, deseeded and chopped

• 2 glass milk

• 4 tbsp sugar

Steps:

1. Run apple, milk and sugar in blender, till apple is crushed completely.
2. Chill the Shake.
3. Pour into glass, from a height; so froth forms.
4. Serve cold.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup milk

• 4 tbsp. filter coffee decoction or 2 tsp. instant coffee

• 3 tsp. sugar ground

• 4 tsp. hot water (if using instant coffee)

• 2 scoops vanilla ice-cream

• 1/4 tsp vanilla essence

Steps:

1. Beat together sugar, coffee and hot water.
2. When it gets foamy, add milk.
3. Mix and keep in refrigerator till required and quite chilled.
4. Before serving, add vanilla essence,  beat till frothy with an electric whopper or egg beater.
5. Pour coffee in two glasses from
6. Put vanilla ice-cream in to glass (one in each)
7. Serve cold

Ingredients:

For Cream

• 1/2 cup chilled heavy cream

• 1 1/2 tbsp sugar

Other Ingredients

• 2 cups milk

• 1 tbsp milk

• 1 tbsp unsweetened chocolate

• 1/4 tsp powdered unsweetened chocolate

Steps:

1. Beat cream and sugar till it holds stiff peaks
2. Heat milk, remove 1/4 cup of milk in a cup
3. Add sugar and chocolate, stir vigorously
4. When fully dissolved and frothy, add to remaining milk.
5. Bring back to a boil, reduce, simmer 1/2 a minute
6. Pour into 2 large mugs from a height to make it frothy.
7. Top with whipped cream
8. Sprinkle powdered chocolate
9. Serve hot