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Thandai Pudding Holi dessert, eggless!

February 27, 2015 by simplyvegetarian777 33 Comments

Thandai Pudding is a delicious and easy Fusion Dessert from Indian cuisine. It combines Thandai Spice MIx with Pudding and layered with delicate Saffron Sauce. This is a perfect Dessert for your Holi Party.

Thandai Pudding is a delicious dessert delicately flavored with Thandai Spice Mix, a festive spice mix. It is a fusion dessert perfect for your festivals and Holi. #holidesserts #pudding #eggfreedessert #thandairecipe #indiandesserts

Thandai Pudding

Thandai Pudding

Holi is my favorite festival. It onsets spring officially in India. A true symbol of secular India. It is a festival celebrated by Hindus but I have seen, lot of other communities taking part in the festival with equal enthusiasm. The streets are covered with abeer and gulal. People are drenched in colors. Lot of laughter! Lot of zest! Children, Youth and Elderly……it seems that they all get their spirits a new spark with the brightness of Holi.

I tried to create the zest and color of Holi in my pictures. Give me colors and I can play with them endlessly, arranging and re-arranging them. Bright, Beautiful Colors!

Thandai Pudding is a delicious dessert delicately flavored with Thandai Spice Mix, a festive spice mix. It is a fusion dessert perfect for your festivals and Holi. #holidesserts #pudding #eggfreedessert #thandairecipe #indiandesserts

Thandai Pudding

The Thandai Facts

  1. Thandai is an Indian drink which is often served on the ocassion of the festivals like Maha-Shivratri and Holi.
  2. 2 common variations of Thandai are Badaam and Nuts Thandai and the other popular version is BHAANG Thandai.
  3. It is a popular drink during festivals in the states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
  4. Thandai masala is made with a paste of different nuts and spices and then boiled with milk and rose or saffron. A delightful drink.
Thandai Pudding is a delicious dessert delicately flavored with Thandai Spice Mix, a festive spice mix. It is a fusion dessert perfect for your festivals and Holi. #holidesserts #pudding #eggfreedessert #thandairecipe #indiandesserts

Thandai Pudding

Other Popular Holi Dishes from my blog are – Gujiya, Kanji, Dahi Pakodi, Namkeen, Fruit & Nuts Custard.

3 Components of Thandai Pudding

  1. Thandai Spice Mix
  2. Pudding
  3. Saffron Sauce

You are actually in treat today since I am going to share 3 recipes today. One for Thandai mixture and another for this gorgeous pudding. Thandai proportions vary from maker to maker. I have adapted it to my family’s taste.

Making Thandai mix

Yields – 1/4 cup or more.

Kitchen equipment required – coffee grinder or spice grinder

Ingredients 

Almonds – 10

Pistachio – 10

Magaj (melon seeds) – 2 tbsp

Chironji – 1/2 tbsp

Khus khus ( poppy seeds) – 1 tsp

Fennel seeds – 1/2 tsp

Green Cardamom – 2

Black pepper corns – 6

Rose petals, dry – 1 tbsp, optional.

Method

Grind everything together in a fine powder. Store it in an air tight jar in refrigerator. Because of the nuts, it will not be a very dry powder. It will be slightly damp.

Thandai Pudding is a delicious dessert delicately flavored with Thandai Spice Mix, a festive spice mix. It is a fusion dessert perfect for your festivals and Holi. #holidesserts #pudding #eggfreedessert #thandairecipe #indiandesserts

Thandai Pudding

Making the Pudding

I have created a fusion here, combining egg-less basic pudding with thandai in it. The result is awesome.

Serves – 5

Kitchen Equipments Required – heavy bottom sauce pan, stirrer, spoons, dessert or  pudding bowls., plastic cling wrap.

Ingredients

Milk – 2 cups, I used skimmed.

Cornflour – 2 tbsp

Sugar – 2 tbsp. Use more if you like more sweet. My desserts are on the lower end of the sweetness.

Salt – a small pinch

Thandai mixture – 1 tbsp

Saffron – a pinch

Method

  1. Take the heavy bottom pan. Add Cornflour, sugar, salt and thandai mixture to it. Make sure to break the damp thandai mixture as much, so that it doesn’t make lump.

  2. Add milk and saffron to it. Stir with a stirrer/whisk vigorously. Mix everything well.

  3. Put on the gas stove and cook on medium flame. Do not boil it at all. Keep cooking on lower medium flame, while stirring with whisk continuously.

  4. In 7-8 minutes, it will thicken. Dip the back of the spoon in the pudding. If it sticks, pudding is ready. Switch off the gas. Pour in dessert bowls, equally.

Making Saffron Sauce

Ingredients

Heavy cream – 1/4 cup

Cornflour – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1 to 2 tsp, as per taste

Turmeric – a small pinch. I prefer using natural coloring agents. You may use yellow food color too but I donot recommend it. Turmeric is not adding any flavor to it but is acting like a coloring agent only.

Method

  1. Mix all the ingredients together. Cook on low flame while stirring continuously like the pudding, for 2-3 minutes. It will thicken. Switch off the gas.

  2. Layer a tea spoon of it on top of each pudding bowl and spread gently with the back of the spoon.

  3. Cover with plastic cling wrap and Chill for 2-3 hrs before serving.

Notes

  1. You may make more sauce for thicker layer by increasing the ingredients in double.

  2. Garnish with chopped pistachio and saffron.

I promise you that your family and friends are going to love it and kiss your hands!! It’s royal, elegant and just out of this world!

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Thandai Pudding is a delicious dessert delicately flavored with Thandai Spice Mix, a festive spice mix. It is a fusion dessert perfect for your festivals and Holi. #holidesserts #pudding #eggfreedessert #thandairecipe #indiandesserts

Thandai Pudding

In my kitchen, you will always EAT HAPPY & STAY HAPPY!

Happy Holi !!

Sonal

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Comments

  1. indusinternationalkitchen

    March 7, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    Happy Holi to you Sonal! This pudding looks delicious! thanks for the thandai mixture recipe! So for making thandai, you just mix the mixture with some milk? I so much want to try this – both your pudding and thandai! And I would love to spike them with a lil’ something too! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Hilda

    March 4, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    You certainly captured the colours of Holi, and I can imagine the flavours are equally beautiful.

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      March 5, 2015 at 7:10 am

      Thanks Hilda ❤️

      Reply
  3. Sadia Mohamed

    March 4, 2015 at 6:48 am

    I had celebrated holi just once when i was in college. It was super fun. I have heard pf thandai, but never had it. Is it the same as baang? The pudding version of it looks yummy. 🙂

    Reply
  4. apuginthekitchen

    March 3, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    I will let you know and agree about leaving out the rose water with the tea. I think you could charge for shipping. I do almost all my shopping online and expect to pay for shipping. You could offer free shipping girders over a certain dollar amount, like $15 or $20 spent gets free shipping. I think $5 is s bargain for 2 oz of spice.

    Reply
  5. Namrata

    March 2, 2015 at 2:42 am

    Growing up in the south has many of us wondering what the fuss about playing with water and colours is! Yes, I am not a holi person :)) But my daughter loves it! Its her most fav festival. She loves to get wet and smothered with colours. Thandai is synonymous with this colourful festival.. and you make a pudding with it! Love it Sonal.

    Reply
  6. Frugal Hausfrau

    March 1, 2015 at 6:38 pm

    This is just beautiful! The pudding looks fun, but your marvelous photography make it look mouthwatering! 🙂

    Reply
  7. Nancy

    March 1, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    The photos are awesome… love all the colors! Hmm…pudding or drink? Drink or pudding? May I have both? <3

    Reply
  8. apuginthekitchen

    March 1, 2015 at 11:14 am

    That’s great cashews I have. Going to make the drink tonight and watch season finale of downton abbey!

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      March 1, 2015 at 2:04 pm

      ☺️

      Reply
  9. Margot @ Gather and Graze

    February 28, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    Such beautiful,vibrant photos Sonal! These little puddings sound amazing!

    Reply
  10. apuginthekitchen

    February 28, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    The puddng is beautiful, I love the colors and the spicing. I really want to try the drink. I will have to see if I can find the magaj and chironji, I have everything else in my pantry. I love drinks made with milk.

    Reply
    • apuginthekitchen

      March 2, 2015 at 1:34 pm

      I made the drink last night, I didn’t have dried rose so I used rose water/essence, I used the cashews instead of the chironji and magaj. I also used both rose water and saffron in mine. What a delicious and addictive combination. I hope you are going to sell this Thandai mix in your shop because I will always like to keep this on hand. I was thinking of making a chai with it, steeping a tea bag in the spiced milk. So so good Sonal.

      Reply
  11. Anjana @ At The Corner Of Happy & Harried

    February 28, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    What a lovely, lovely post, Sonal! I’ve never had Thandai, I guess I must make some using your recipe.

    Reply
  12. Ginger

    February 28, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    They look amazing – I love the flavours of the nuts – I’ll definitely have a look for those ingredients!
    Have a great Holi!

    Reply
  13. June Burns

    February 28, 2015 at 11:58 am

    What pretty little puddings! I just love the color 🙂

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      March 1, 2015 at 8:56 am

      Thanks June ☺️

      Reply
  14. andy

    February 28, 2015 at 9:23 am

    happy Holi <3
    Thandai looks thanda 😉

    Reply
  15. andy

    February 28, 2015 at 9:23 am

    happy Holi <3
    Thandai looks thanda 😉

    Reply
  16. Sathya @Mykitchenodyssey

    February 28, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Oh !! lovly lovely pictures sonal.Happy holi to u and yur family.These pudding really feel like holi is here.

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      March 1, 2015 at 8:55 am

      I love Holi so had to bring the colors out ❤️
      happy Holi !

      Reply
  17. Elaine @ foodbod

    February 28, 2015 at 7:47 am

    The puddings look amazing and you definitely captured the colours 🙂 happy Holi xx

    Reply
  18. Divine Spice Box

    February 28, 2015 at 2:51 am

    whoot whoot ! This is superb !

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      March 1, 2015 at 8:54 am

      Prcahi girl ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

      Reply
  19. lapetitepaniere

    February 28, 2015 at 12:18 am

    Love your Pudding, the color and the texture. Holi is a spectacular festival here in Dubai, too. Happy Holi, Sonal 🙂

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      March 1, 2015 at 8:54 am

      Linda ❤️❤️
      If we were neighbors it would have been so much more fun, learning and sharing :).

      Reply
      • lapetitepaniere

        March 2, 2015 at 5:38 am

        I’m sure, Sonal 😀

        Reply
  20. Giramuk's Kitchen

    February 28, 2015 at 12:09 am

    I love Holi too! My old Alma Mater in NZ used to actually have a mini Holi party and I LOVED it! 🙂
    I definitely want to make this pudding because your pictures just made me crave for it! Ill have to keep an eye out for these ingredients! 🙂

    Reply
  21. Mr Fitz

    February 27, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    And that would be pretty cool!

    Reply
  22. Mr Fitz

    February 27, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    Because that’s my birthday

    Reply
  23. Mr Fitz

    February 27, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    Is holi on the 6th?

    Reply
  24. Malar

    February 27, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    Happy Holi Sonal!!! These pictures are so inviting…I heard of this pudding, your pics are making me drool 😀

    Reply
    • simplyvegetarian777

      February 28, 2015 at 10:54 pm

      Thanks Malar!! It is delcious ☺️

      Reply

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