Kesar Malai Kulfi Recipe

Kesar Malai Kulfi is very easy to make at home. Rich, creamy, ice-cream made with reduced milk, flavoured with saffron and cardamom.

Cooking Time and Serve Estimate for Kesar Malai Kulfi Recipe

Cooking Time : 45 mins.
Preparation Time : 10 mins.

Makes 5 kulfis.

Ingredients for making Kesar Malai Kulfi Recipe

1 litre full fat milk
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon cardamom (elaichi) powder
a few saffron strands
1 tablepsoon arrowroot or cornflour

Method for preparing Kesar Malai Kulfi Recipe

1. In a small bowl, soak the saffron in a little warm milk and keep aside.

2. Dissolve the arrowroot in 2 tablepsoons of water and keep aside.

3. Put the milk in a broad non-stick pan and bring it to a boil. Add the arrowroot solution and sugar and mix well.

4. Simmer over a medium flame, stirring continuously till the milk reduces to a little less than half the original quantity (approx. 450 ml.).

5. Cool completely and add the cardamom powder and saffron mixture and mix well.

6. Pour into kulfi moulds and freeze overnight till it sets.

7. To unmould, allow the moulds to remain outside the refrigerator for 5 minutes and then unmould by inserting a wooden skewer stick or a fork, in the centre of the kulfi and puling it out.