Thandai (Cooling and storing)

Hello Friends
Drinking Thandai is very healthy and I had seen in my childhood my father making Thandai on holi as after this festival Summer begins and this drink is good to consume in summers.Thandai protects you from Sunstrokes and bleeding from nose in a day.

You can get thandai from market but all of them contains preservative so here is the recipe of home made thandai which you can refrigerate and can use more than a month.
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Ingredients for Thandai Recipe.

Water: 1 ltr
Sugar: 1 kg
almonds: 75grams
cashewnuts: 25gms
Cardamom(ilaichi): 35-40 (peeled)
Aniseeds (saunf)-5 table spoons or 60 gms
Black pepper (Kali mirch)- 2 table spoon
Poppy Seeds( Khas Khas)- half bowl
Rose Water (Gulab Jal)- 5 table spoons
Saffron (Kesar)- 15 threads

Method of making Thandai Recipe:

• Take a utensil mix sugar and water heat it and keep it boiling for 5 min.
• Turn off the gas and the sugar syrup is ready for thandai
• Clean aniseed, black pepper, almonds,cashewnuts, cardamoms and Khaskhas. Wash and soak them for overnight.
• In the morning, make them separate from water. Peel almonds. Beat them finely and use sugar syrup instead of water at the time of beating.
• Mix this mixture in the sugar syrup and sieve it. Mix the remaining mixture in the syrup and sieve it again.
• Thandai is Ready
• Fill it in the air-tight container and keep it in the fridge. You can use it more than a month.
• Whenever you want to drink Thandai, mix milk and ice cubes according to your taste and enjoy the real taste of Thandai