Pista Kulfi (Pistachio Ice Cream)
July 22nd, 2008 filed under Desserts
Kulfi is a very popular Indian ice cream. Kulfi comes in a variety of different flavors. Traditional kulfi is flavored with cardamom; this recipe is flavored with cardamom and pistachios.
Serves 6.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups whole milk
- 1 slice of white bread
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/4 cup sugar, adjust to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground cardamom (ilachi)
- 10 pistachios sliced
Method
- Remove the crust from all sides of the bread and cut the bread in small pieces.
- Blend bread pieces, cornstarch, and a 1/2 cup of milk, making smooth paste and set aside.
- Boil remaining milk (3.5 cups) in nonstick frying pan on medium high heat.
- Stir milk as needed to keep milk from burning on the bottom of the frying pan. Stir the sides of the pan to avoid scalding.
- After milk comes to boil, let the milk boil for another 12 minutes. The goal is to boil the milk from 3 1/2 cups to 2 1/2 cups.
- Add the bread mixture to the milk in frying the pan and cook for another 4 minutes, reducing the heat to medium. Bread and cornstarch are added to reduce the water crystallizing in kulfi during freezing.
- Next add sugar and pistachios and cook for 2 more minutes.
- Turn off the heat and add cardamom powder.
- Cool the milk to room temperature and pour into a bowl,
- Take cellophane wrap and place it right over the milk covering it completely. Note: It is important that the cellophane wrap touches the milk.
- Put it in freezer. It will take about 7 hours for the kulfi to be ready to serve.
Variations
- Replace pistachios with almond or coconut powder.
- Replace pistachios with finally chopped fruits like mangos or strawberries. Add fruits in the end after turning off the heat.
- Many people enjoy eating kulfi like a Popsicle. Before freezing, pour the milk mixture in to a Popsicle mold. If you don’t have Popsicle mold use small paper cups and place cellophane wrap on top of the milk and place a Popsicle stick in center of cup and freeze.
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Hi, Aunti
I made kulfi with almonds and also bundi ladoo both were good and my husband liked it,
he loves sweet,all credits goes to you. Thank you for helping me,i dont know cooking since i am just married and
getting into kitchen now only and i am now away from my mother so some days i will be struggling in kitchen,
you are now just like my mother who teaches me,you are doing a great job.Thankyou.
hi aunty ji i have one more question…what do you mean by saying whole milk? is that regular milk or what?? i wanted to make kulfi but then i didnt know what you ment by saying whole milk. thank you manjula aunty
it will be regular milk
aunty ji mmm how much is 3 tablespoons in mL?? if you know can you please reply!! thank you very much!! =)
Namastay Aunty
Mein Kal aap ka Kulfi ka recepie dekh kar mein try kari thi wo bahut achi tarah aya aur bahut tasty bhi tha. Mere Husband
aur Mere friends ko bahut acha lagha. thanks for ur recepie
Half and Half in the US is a milk and cream mixture sold in the milk or dairy section of the grocery store.
hello aunty , you mentioned ‘half n half milk’ what is it????thanx
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some time using 1 cup half anf half milk helps.
Hi aunty,
I am very big fan of u aunty. I tried ur kulfi. But it came out with ice crystals. I followed exactly same as u said. only one thing i changed is i used kulfi moulds. pls give me any suggestion.