Thandai Recipe - Spiced Festival Drink With Saffron And Dry Fruits

Archana Doshi

March 8, 2020

9133 Ratings

Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 40 M|Total: 50 M

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Appetizer

Cuisine:Rajasthani

Thandai is a very popular drink from Rajasthan made with dry fruits, saffron and milk. The recipe is super simple to make and and healthy too. The addition of black pepper, kesar and poppy seeds adds to the punch and flavor of Thandai.

Each one in India has a way of making this recipe for Holi, and everyone has a personal touch. This recipe of Thandai will taste just like your Guruji Thandai or Patanjali Thandai that you get in the market. You can also flavor it with Bhang and make a Bhang Thandai for the festival of Holi.

You can savour the Thandai hot, during cold winter nights or cold during the famous festival of Mahashivratri and Holi. Thandai is often mixed with 'bhang' to make an intoxicating drink.

Thandai (Spiced Festival Drink with Saffron and Dry fruits) can be served as a Party Drink for festivals.

If you like this recipe of Thandi, here are a few more Thandi spiced/flavoured recipes that you can make at home.

You can savour the Thandai hot, during cold winter nights or cold during the famous festival of Mahashivratri and Holi. Thandai is often mixed with 'bhang' to make an intoxicating drink.

Thandai (Spiced Festival Drink with Saffron and Dry fruits) can be served as a Party Drink for festivals.

If you like this recipe of Thandi, here are a few more Thandi spiced/flavoured recipes that you can make at home.

Watch video recipe of Thandai Recipe - Spiced Festival Drink With Saffron And Dry Fruits

Ingredients

Ingredients to make Thandai Recipe

1 Milk, (I used 2% fat milk)

3/4 Sugar

2 Saffron strands

Ingredients to be ground into a fine powder

1/4 Whole Almonds (Badam), blanched and peeled

1/4 Cashew nuts

1/4 Pistachios

2 Fennel seeds (Saunf)

2 Poppy seeds

2 Cardamom Powder (Elaichi), (8 to 10 cardamoms)

1/2 Cinnamon Powder (Dalchini)

10 Whole Black Peppercorns

Instructions for Thandai Recipe - Spiced Festival Drink With Saffron And Dry Fruits

To begin making the Thandai Recipe, we will first blanch the almonds. Click here to see a video recipe of how to Blanch Almonds.

Soak the almonds in hot water for about 10 minutes. After 10 minutes of soaking, peel the skin of the almonds and keep aside to make the Thandai.

Add the blanched almonds, cashew nuts, pistachios, cinnamon, fennel seeds cardamom, black pepper and poppy seeds into a blender.

Add a 1/4 cup of milk and grind the dry fruits into a fine paste. This is the Thandai Spice Mixture and it tastes absolutely delicious and you can store it in the refrigerator to make a thandai drink anytime.

In a heavy bottom saucepan; add milk and saffron. Bring the milk mixture to a boil.

When the milk begins to boil add sugar and simmer stirring continuously till the sugar melts.

Add in the thandai spice mixture into the milk and simmer for another 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and allow the thandai to cool and refrigerate.

Serve the Thandai chilled for the festival of holi or Maha shivratri. In addition, you can also flavor it with Bhang and make a Bhang Thandai for the festival of Holi.

Serve the Thandai chilled for the festival of Holi or Maha shivratri or simple as a Party Drink when you have friends and family over.