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Thandai Pudding Holi dessert, eggless!

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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

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Happy Holi !!

Sonal

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Comments

  1. indusinternationalkitchen

    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! 🙂

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  3. Sadia Mohamed

    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. 🙂

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  4. apuginthekitchen

    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.

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  5. Namrata

    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.

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  10. apuginthekitchen

    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.

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    • apuginthekitchen

      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.

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  20. Giramuk's Kitchen

    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! 🙂

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