Easy Homemade Kulfi Falooda From Scratch | Kulfi Falooda is a super delicious chilled dessert that is very popular in North India during summertime.

Kulfi Falooda is one of my favourite sweet street food when we go out shopping in the summers. It is available in different flavours like rose, rabdi, pista, Kesar, cardamom, etc. 

What is kulfi falooda 

Falooda is a refreshing, cooling and delicious Mughlai Indian version of a cold dessert made with noodles. It has origins in the Persian dish faloodeh, variants of which are found across West, Central, and South Asia. Traditionally it is made by mixing rose syrup, vermicelli, and sweet basil seeds with milk often served with ice cream.

How to make kulfi falooda at home

It is a famous Indian chilled dessert that you can easily make at home. A great dessert that is easily customized according to your taste and enjoy it in hot summer days.

For making kulfi falooda you need malai kulfi for base, soaked sabja or basil seeds, boiled and chilled vermicelli or falooda, flavoured syrup and rabdi.

The recipe today, I am sharing with you has a little change from the traditional falooda. It is easy to make and very delicious in taste.

Instead of plain boiled falooda, I made vermicelli custard which gives a thick base and a creamy texture to the kulfi falooda. It also replaces rabdi from the recipe. You only need malai kulfi and vermicelli custard for making kulfi falooda.

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Vegan Spinach and kiwi ice cream

Caramelized almond honey ice cream

 As I told you there is a lot of way we can customize it with different flavours. Kufi is an Indian eggless no churn ice cream and has a very unique flavor. For making malai kulfi I used simple ingredients present at home. To cut down calories used toned milk and add milk powder instead of condensed milk to give it a thick creamy texture and caramel flavour. No white sugar is used to keep the health point of view in mind and also reduced the sugar quantity. You are free to increase or decrease sweetness according to your sweet tooth.

Traditionally, falooda is made with arrowroot powder but if you want to skip this step it’s fine. Vermicelli is the best replacement for it and it is easily available at the grocery store. It not only saves your time but also made the process quick.

You can also prepare all the parts like vermicelli custard, kulfi in advance and just put together when you needed.

Assembling this kulfi falooda is very easy. Once everything is ready it just takes 5 minutes in plating and serving. For the best taste serve this lip-smacking dessert chilled. 

Basic Ingredients for making Kulfi Falooda:

• Malai Kulfi– Homemade or store-bought malai kulfi is the best suitable match for this. I have used homemade malai kulfi but if you are in a hurry can use market bought too.
• Falooda noodles– Although making falooda at home is easy but yeah time-consuming so here I have replaced it with market bought vermicelli.
• Sabja seeds- Adds a nice crunch to this dessert. If sabja seeds are not handy can use chia seeds instead. Or you can skip it if don’t like the taste. I am also skipping this as kids don’t like its taste.
• Rose Syrup-Easily available at the grocery shops. You can also add some other flavour of your choice or can add fruit crushes whatever is available at home.
• Nuts– to make it more rich and chrunchy add pistachios, or any nuts of your choice or you can add freshly chopped fruits to make it healthy and more flavourful.

Step by step preparation of kulfi falooda at home

Making of malai kulfi

1.Put a sauce pan on the medium flame. Add milk and save ¼ cup milk in a bowl. Boil milk and lower the flame. Simmer and keep stirring milk in between till it becomes half in the quantity.

2.Add milk powder and cornflour to the milk saved in a bowl, mix well and put it aside.

3. Once the milk become thicken, add milk powder mixture, khand sugar, and mix well. Now stir continuously till it start becoming a thick mixture.

4. Add chopped dry fruits and mix, cook for another 1-2 minutes.

5. Switch off the flame and let the mixture cool down completely.

6. Now transfer the mixture into glasses and cover with a foil paper. Put in the freezer till they set.

For making vermicelli custard

7.Now in a sauce pan add around one cup of milk, once it start boiling add vermicelli and cook till they becomes soft.

8.In a bowl mix ½ tbsp custard powder and 3 tbsp milk and mix well.

9.Now add sugar and custard powder mixture and stir continuously till it starts thickens. Switch off the flame and let it cool down completely.

10. Transfer into a bowl and put the bowl in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.

11.Once the kulfi is set, take out from the freezer, warm it between hands and de mould it.

Assembling of kulfi falooda

 12.Divide it into four pieces. Now cut each pieces into further small pieces.

13.Take a serving bowl add some vermicelli custard then pieces of kulfi. Add some more vermicelli custard and pour ½ to 1 tbsp rose syrup. Finally garnish with chopped nuts and serve immediately.

Serving suggestion

Serve chilled kulfi falooda as an evening snack or a after meal dessert.

Tips and tricks

1. You can prepare kulfi and vermicelli custard in advance and assemble kulfi falooda whenever you like to eat.
2. Using vermicelli in place of falooda sev make the process fast.
3. Use homemade or market bought kulfi as per your time and requirement.

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