Anne Tilmont

STRANGE RECIPE OF THE WEEK...

Falooda with Tukmaria... something about colon health and fleaseed and a yummie recipe

Fal and Tuk WHAT???

This is a fresh drink and/or desert from India and imported in a lot of exotic islands. Ice cream, little seeds that make a lovely jelly, pistachios etc make it a rich and aromatic treat, easy to make.

Basically

Now, often (like here) Tukmaria is defined as 'basil seeds', which is  not so correct: it's the tiny little psyllium seeds (of the Plantago Family)

It seems also certain kinds of basil seeds are used, but that's not the same: psyllium is really good for you, tiny little 'flea seeds' full of fibres etc. if you ever have some problems in your belly, read on...

How you can make the sweet drink is shown by these lovely two ladies of ShowmetheCurry... 

Some hints before you start:

= The Falooda Sev are strands of Sago starch from palm trees.You may substitute that with arrowroot,  tapioca (starch from the cassave or maniok root) or even shortly boiled fine rice vermicelli to ad the jelly-ish texture for contrast.

= I think milk is for a calf and not for human beings - a lot of people don't tolerate milk that well. So I prefer to make all those recipes with a good (bio) soy milk or coconut milk

= If u cannot find rose syrup, you may just use the rose essence (same shops where you buy your arab orange flower water (fleur d'oranger) for the mint tea and cakes. Ad some extra sugar. If u don't like too much sugar, use healthy agave syrup instead

 

And a related desert, only this one is frozen: Kulfi

For those who know a bit more about Asian Cooking, it is very close to the delicious Indian KULFI ice cream with saffron - and as usual they don't count the calories... For easy & quick Kulfi just look again at our two ladies, only please substitute the (really chemical fake cream) Cool Whip with natural whipped cream, lightly sweetened and with a dash of vanilla essence or seeds. Traditionally the milk is boiled... don't think they had evaporated sweet milk in those days ;-))

 

For a more traditional approach see this recipe also, including how to make the strands with corn flour... interesting!

 

PS Lovely Curry Ladies, tried to send you a message about this posting, but You Tube won't let me. Sorry!

 

 

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