Mango Falooda
a popular summer dessert made with mangoes, vermicelli,milk, basil seeds, nuts and ice-cream.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 4 mangoes
- 2 cups of milk
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp basil seeds /sabja seeds/ takmaria
- ½ a packet of falooda sev
- rose syrup
- mango icecream
- chopped nuts (almonds and pistachios) for garnishing
- dried rose petals for garnishing
Instructions
- Firstly, soak sabja seeds in a cup of water and keep asidefor 20 minutes.
- Chop 2 mangoes and blend with milk and sugar. Keep this mixture aside. It can be kept in the refrigerator till the time all other elements are getting ready.
- Chop 2 more mangoes into small cubes and keep aside.
- Heat water in a pan.
- Add falooda sev/noodles and cook for 5 minutes.
- Strain and drop the noodles in cold water. Strain again and keep aside. ( For cooking falooda sev, follow the instructionsas given in the noodles packet).
- To assemble the falooda, take a tall glass.
- Add 2 tsp rose syrup. Swirl the glass.
- Add 1 tbsp soaked sabja seeds.
- Next, add chopped mangoes.
- Add 2 tbsp cooked falooda sev.
- Next, pour the mango milk mixture.
- Add 1 tbsp of chopped mangoes.
- Top it with a large scoop of mango ice cream.
- Finally garnish with chopped mangoes, chopped nuts and dried rose petals.
- Repeat the same with remaining ingredients . The ingredients given above will make 4 tall glasses of falooda.
- Serve immediately
Notes
For garnishing, you can also use tutti fruti and glazed cherries.
You can also add mango or rose jelly as one of the layers of falooda.