Falooda – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

For Soaking Sabja:

• Take sabja seeds into a bowl and soak them in enough water for about 30 minutes.

For making Jelly:

• Adding jelly is optional. You can skip it if you don’t want to.
• Take plain gelatine powder into a bowl. You can use flavored gelatine powder if you want.
• Add water and dissolve gelatine well in it.
• The water should be at room temperature and not hot.
• When gelatine dissolves well add hot water, powdered sugar, and mix well.
• Add rose syrup and mix well.
• Transfer the bowl into freezer to set the jelly.

For Milk Shake:

• Heat up milk on medium heat and bring it to boil.
• Take cornflour in a bowl.
• Add milk that is at room temperature in it and mix well.
• No lumps of cornflour should be formed.
• When the milk begins to boil, add sugar, and mix well.
• Add a little cornflour slurry at a time and stir well.
• Corn flour gives nice consistency or thickness to a milkshake.
• Cook for 3-4 minutes to remove the raw flavor of cornflour.
• Add rose syrup and mix well.
• You can add mango pulp, strawberry syrup, or crush in place of rose syrup.
• Cook for 2-3 minutes more.
• Turn off the gas and let it cool down at room temperature.
• Transfer the milkshake into a bowl.
• Transfer the bowl into freezer to cool down the milkshake.

For Falooda Noodles:

• Take cornflour into a bowl and add water, sugar. Mix well.
• Heat up a pan on medium heat and transfer the mixture into it.
• Cook on medium heat until it thickens up.
• Stir continuously. No lumps of cornflour should be formed.
• As the mixture gets cooked it turns like wheat kurdai flour.
• When corn flour gets a nice glaze, cook for another 2 minutes on very low heat.
• Turn off the gas and take a chakali mold.
• Fit shev dish at the base of the mold and fill it with cornflour mixture.
• Take ice cold water into a bowl and add few ice cubes in it.
• Roll the noodles in the ice-cold water.
• You can use the color of your choice while making noodles.
• Transfer the bowl into the freezer for 30 minutes to set.
• After 30 minutes, drain the noodles through a strainer.
• Falooda noodles are ready.
• You can use store-bought falooda noodles too.

For Assembling Falooda:

• Take a glass and add some rose syrup at the base.
• Add a layer of soaked sabja seeds.
• Add a layer of falooda noodles.
• Add a layer of jelly. You can skip the jelly if you don’t want.
• Add milk shake layer.
• Top it up with vanilla ice cream scoop.
• Garnish with few almonds, pistachios and a little rose syrup.
• Rose falooda is already.