Traditional Malai Kulfi Recipe

Malai Kulfi is a delicious ice cream that everyone relishes during the Summer season. It is popularly found at beaches in India. Here I will bring you the original recipe of Malai Kulfi in this Article.

A sweet Indian ice-cream made from milk, sugar, cardamom and dry fruits. This is a best Indian dessert that kids love in hot summer days. Instead of buying ready made stuff which has artificial flavoring agent, follow this simple recipe and make kulfi at home with pure organic flavors.

I looked for many recipes in cookbooks as well as from google search. Many recipes call for condensed milk or cornstarch for making malai kulfi as a quick method. Although condensed milk will make your life easy, but those recipes were not convincing to me. Malai kulfi should have malai (heavy cream) in it, right? Otherwise you can’t call it malai kulfi, I would just call it a kulfi recipe. That is just my opinion.

There are so many different varieties and flavors of kulfi. The traditional ones are malai, kesar, pista, mango, elaichi etc. However nowadays you can find all innovative flavors in the dessert sections of restaurants. But still I am stick to the traditional way of making kulfi. Today I am giving you the kulfi recipe without using condensed milk that is by reducing the milk gradually and making creamy rabdi. Let me share a simplest recipe of making delicious & delightful Malai kulfi. 

Ingredients:

1. Full Cream Milk - 1 ltr
2. Powdered Sugar - 80 to 90 gms
3. Cashew nuts - 10 nos
4. Pistachios - 8 nos
5. Almond - 8 nos
6. Cardamom - 2 - 4 nos
7. Kesar / Saffron few (optional) 

This recipe takes around 2 hours for preparing . If you do this recipe separately it consumes large time. So while cooking your lunch or dinner you can do this recipe Parallely. 

Directions to make Malai Kulfi :

1. Take a heavy bottomed pan add the milk and boil it. Boil the milk till it reduces to 1/3 rd of the original quantity of the milk. It takes around 1 and 1/2 an hour approx to reduce the quantity of the milk.
2. Now in the 3rd pic you can notice the Malai formed on the milk and also on the sides of the pan. Scrap on the sides of the pan while the milk is getting reduced gradually.  
3. Be careful that the milk does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
4. Keep the stove in simmer and keep boiling to get a thick creamy Malai. 
5. Now the milk has reduced to 1/3 rd. See the 4th pic. The milk is somewhat thick now. Still we have make it creamy by adding Nuts to it.

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Meanwhile while boiling the milk itself finely chop the almond, cashew and pistachio. Powder the cardamom. Be ready with the ingredients. 

1. Now add the powdered sugar to the thickened milk. Also add the chopped nuts and cardamom powder. Stir well and keep boiling in simmer till the milk becomes thick and the nuts become soft. 
2. In the last pics you can see a Malai in the Milk clearly and lumps of malai are formed and nuts are puffy. 
3. Now our creamy milk is ready to make Kulfi. Switch off the Stove. Keep the milk aside for cooling down.

1. After cooling down properly we have to freeze it for getting Kulfi. I have used popsicles mould for kulfi. You can use kulfi mould or simply any container for getting its shape. 
2. Pour in the mould and keep in freezer. After 1 hour take that mould from freezer and insert the ice cream sticks in to it. So that it will stick to kulfi in semi solid state. In liquid state you cannot insert the sticks. 
3. Keep in freezer for about 6 - 8 hrs (Ensure the exact freezing temperature). 

While removing Kulfi, keep the mould in vessel containing water for about 5 secs and remove the kulfi gently. 

If you are using simply any container. Pour the milk in conatiner and keep in freezer for 6 - 8 hrs. Use knife for removing the kulfi in to desired shape.

Enjoy the real flavour of Malai Kulfi with traditional touch!!!