Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Strawberry Kulfi

Kulfi is Indian ice cream made with boiled milk. It comes in many flavors - Mango, Elaichi (cardamom), Kesar (saffron) etc.
I saw Paula Deen episode "Chocolate Strawberry Trees" in foodnetwork few weeks back.That inspired me to make this plant of my own thoughts to give a stage on this blog for this JFI -Month of Strawberry. Plant arrangement with Real Strawberries and Mint leaves

This is the recipe for "Strawberry Kulfi".

Ingredients:
Strawberries - 5 no,chopped into small pieces,
Milk - 6 cups
sugar - 5 tspn
cardamom pwd - 1 tspn
Pistachio - 6 no,chopped
Almond - 6no,blanched,
Saffron - 5 strands
Corn flour - 1tspn
and
Popsicle molds for making Kulfi
Rabdi,corn flour,saffron mixed milk,sugar,nuts,strawberry pieces,along with fancy plant

Method:
Place the milk in a largeskillet and bring it to boil over high heat,stirring 2 to 3 minutes.Reduce heat to medium low and stir the milk with wooden spatula ,and scrape the sticked milk in the sides of the vessel ,until milk is reduced to 1/2 of its original quantity.In this stage milk is called "Rabdi" or "Basundi".Meanwhile ,grind Pista,blanched Almonds in a blender for small pieces with Cardamom and keep it aside.Mix Cornflour with a 2tspn of Milk ,Saffronstrands and pour this mixture,sugar into the skillet stir well ,until sugar melts and boil it in simmer for another 5 minutes.Transfer to a serving dish and mix nuts along with chopped Strawberry pieces.
Leave the mixture to cool at room temperature.
Wash the Popsicle molds ( I bought in 99cents store and it is available in walmart or you can get here also.
Rabdi into popsicle molds
Pour the mixture into popsicle molds and cover with the given lids and place in the freezer for atleast 5 hours.
Take the molds from the freezer and dip into hot water or run hot water under the molds for 1 min and gently pull the popsicle stick until the popsicle comes out.You have to be bit patient while removing from molds.Strawberry kulfi
Unmold kulfi and place on plates and enjoy the taste of sweet Milky,Nutty flavor sticked with Strawberry scrapes.
This is my entry to JFI event for June month hosting by hostess of "Bakingfairy"..While preparing i really remember those days,My sister and I get our money ready whenever we heard the bell of the icecream bandi(cart)from few blocks away.The ringing bell brings the children to come out of their houses to buy these kulfi and icecreams.
See here for instant kulfi recipe and here for mango and strawberry popsicle.

29 comments:

indosungod said...

Kulfi's are the best and what can beat Strawberrry kulfi?

Lakshmi said...

chala bavunayi kulfi, Vineela.
naku chala ishtamu, noru vurinchestunaru mi recipes to. i luv your blog.

Shilpa said...

Wow...Those look fabulous. A great entry Vineela :).

PS: Can u pls allow non-bloggers commenting? Every time I have to use my blogger id (Which I am no more using) to comment here :(.

Menu Today said...

Hi Vineela,
Good one, I will try it soon.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely delicious !!

I love kulfis and strawberries in them is a SUPER idea :)

Anonymous said...

The strawberry tree with pudina leaves looks very pretty and nice decorative touch, Vineela.
and the kulfis... ha heaven.:)
Great entry for JFI-Strawberries.

Nabeela said...

looks good

Sudha said...

vineela what a treat...looks so delicious..have never tried stawberries but after seeing i feel i should try this recipe..nice presentation and thank u for sharing..

Tanuja said...

Hi Vineela,

excellent entry for JFI:) strawberry kulfi brings all the old memories back:)

Anonymous said...

Oooh! They look yummy. I am definitely going to try them.

Aparna

Anonymous said...

Wow!Everybody in strawberry mode. Cant wait to see the round up.
I liked your small strawberry tree :)

Sumitha said...

Hey coming from Indiras blog,both of you seem to be in a kulfi making mood!
Lovely By just looking at it i can say it tastes good

Luv2cook said...

ooo..the kulfi looks delicious Vineela..and the tree too. Definitely a must make for me. Need to go buy me some moulds.

RP said...

Looks lovely, both kulfi and the tree.

Krithika said...

mouth watering kulfi. nice recipe.

Anonymous said...

What a great entry Vineela. Btw thanks for letting non-bloggers comment. I had tried many times before. You really have a good blog here

Ashwini said...

Lovely post Vineela. Loved the tree :-)

archana said...

Super awesome job Vineela, i am going to try this very soon. Very very creative !!!! I loved the strawberry topiary. Goooood !!!

KA said...

Good recipe Vineela, nice presentation..

Anonymous said...

Hi Vineela,

Strawberries, pistachios... oh, yum :)

Latha said...

Hi Vineela,
Such an innovative idea. Love the idea of strawberries in Kulfi. Looks like I will be spending my weekend trying lots of new recipes ;-)

Thanks,
Latha

starry said...

delicious..mmmmmmmm I love kulfi.

Vineela said...

HI,
ISN - Thank you.
Lakshmi - thank you.
Santhi - Thank you.
Sudha -Thank you.try Sudha you will love those kulfis.
Shilpa - thank you.
Priya - Thank you.
Tanuja - thank you.
Menutoday - Thank you.Let me know how you liked it.
Pushpa - thank you.
Cooking theory - thank you.
Mee too.
Nabeela - thank you.
Archana - Thank you for commenting and iam happy you liked the tree.
Ashwini - Thank you
LG - thank you for your comments and hope to see real tree from you.
L2C - thank you.Definetly give a try and let me know how liked it.
Sumitha - Thank you very much.
Latha - thank you.Iam sure you definetly like the taste.
Aparna - thank you.Give it a try iam sure you like the taste.
Kerala girl - Thank you very much.
Arjuna - Thank you.
Linda - THANK YOU.Pista,Almonds too, Linda.
Indira - Thank you for your comments.
Krithika - THANK YOU.
starry nightS - thank you.

Anonymous said...

Vineela, you have a magic wand I suppose ...never did i see anyone churn out so many delicious dishes within such a short span....:)

Anonymous said...

Fantastic entry,Vineela.
Nice recipe and very creative. Great effort there, Vineela!!!
My 3 yr old is going to love these..:)

Vaishali said...

Vineela,
What a wonderful recipe! I can almost feel the creamy Kulfi with the pistachio bits on my tongue. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...

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Nidhi said...

That's creative....Strawberry Kulfi, Love your presentation and Idea of making kulfi with Strawberry. Nice pics too...

Thanks for sharing.

Nidhi.

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