Falooda with Ice cream

        Falooda - Refreshing Cold Beverage - Sweet Dessert 

Falooda is equally popular all over India specially in Delhi and Mumbai. Its not only delicious but also a very cooling dessert for this Hot summers as sabja seeds  are cooling in nature. You need to plan some elements like soaking sabja seeds and boiling-chilling milk ahead of time while making falooda. But all the effort is worth when you enjoy a glass of falooda. And yet making homemade falooda is also economical and Organic.

Here I have also added a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top just like we get at falooda stalls. Hence you can call it falooda with ice cream. Falooda comes in between category of beverage and dessert. But I prefer to call it as a dessert. This is little heavy if you consider it as a beverage. And most important that you have to eat 80% falooda with spoon so I call it a dessert.

Health Benefits of Sabja / Basil Seeds :
These seeds acts as coolant to lower body heat that’s why as one of the important ingredients in summer for a number of cool drinks such as falooda, rooh afza, nimbu pani and sherbet. It aids in digestion cleaning our digestive system.

Ingredients:

1. Chilled milk - 1 Cup (200 ml)
2. Sugar - 2 tbsp
3. Basil / Sabja Seeds- 1 tbsp
4. Falooda Sev / Roasted Vermicelli - 2 tbsp
5. Rose Syrup - 2 tsp
6. Ice Cream - 2 Scoops
7. Pistachios - few Chopped for Garnishing
8. Rose Petals - few for Garnishing (optional)

Directions to make Falooda:

Soak sabja seeds in water. Within sometime time of soaking, the seeds gets immersed in water and start rising up. 

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Meanwhile take milk and sugar in the pan. Let it come to a boil on medium heat. And then lower the heat and let it simmer for 5-7 minutes. Then chill it in the refrigerator. Milk becomes little thick.

Cook Vermicelli in a pan with some water as needed. After it gets cooked pour some cold water into the vessel and drain the cooked vermicelli through a juice Filter so that the cooked vermicelli is not sticky and is separated. Keep it aside.

Be ready with the Ingredients. We have to add each Ingredient layer by layer. Take a glass. First add the soaked Sabja seeds, then cooked vermicelli, next rose syrup, then add chilled milk. The rose syrup is combined with milk and gives you the pleasant pink colour. The next important ingredient is a scoop of ice cream. You can add any flavour of your choice. At present I have Vanilla Ice cream in my home, So I added it. Finally Garnish with Chopped Pistachios and Rose Petals. Serve immediately.

Notes:

You can adjust the sugar according to your taste.

Rose petals are purely optional. Its just for Garnishing to have a pleasant look. You can skip it.