Malai Kulfi | Easy Kulfi Recipe | How to make Kulfi at Home

Malai Kulfi is a rich, creamy frozen dessert made with milk. The milk is slowly cooked stirring continuously in order to avoid sticking on the bottom. It is extremely simple to make and really really tasty. This is indeed a good idea to enjoy the milk. No Kulfi mold, no problem. Just use a small paper cups.

Malai Kulfi

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Desserts
Cooking Time: 25 mins | Freezing Time: 8 hrs | Yields: 6

Ingredients:

Full cream milk - 500 ml

Sugar - 100 gms

Condensed milk - 1 tblspn (optional)

Khoya - 2 tblspn

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Saffron strands - 1/4 tsp

Almonds - 10 or less

Pistachio - 6

Corn flour - 1 tblspn

Method:

Soak almonds for 30 mins and peel off its skin. Coarsely grind cashew, pistachio and almonds. It should have the rava texture.

Take milk in a wide vessel and bring it to boil. 

When it boils, reduce the flame to low. Stir for every 2 mins.

After 15 to 20 mins, the milk will reduce a little. At this stage, add in sugar, coarsely ground nuts powder, cardamom, saffron, khoya, condensed milk. Mix it well.

Mix corn flour in 2 tblspn of milk and add to the kulfi mixture. Now, the milk will starts to thicken. Wait for 1 to 2 mins and switch off the flame.

Pour this mixture in kulfi mold and close with a lid. If you are using sticks, cover it with a foil. Place it in freezer for 8 hrs.

Once it freezes, show this in running water to remove the kulfi. It loosens from the molds, so that it is easy to pull out of the mold. If you still feel difficult, cut around the sides of kulfi with a knife and take it out.

Serve immediately.

Note:

•  If you do not have kulfi mold, use a disposable plastic cup or a tumbler and a spoon or stick.
•  If you feel difficult to remove even after showing in water, cut around the kulfi with a knife and pull it out.
• You can also reduce the almonds.
• Adding condensed milk is optional.

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready. Soak the almond in water for 20 mins and peel it skin.

Take  milk in a wide vessel and bring it to boil. Boil the milk in low flame for 15 mins

After 15 mins it is reduced a little

In a blender, take cashew, pistachio and almond. Grind it coarsely to a rava like texture

It is ground. Keep aside

Add in 1/4 cup of sugar

mix saffron in little milk and add to it

Add little cardamom

Now, add in 1 tablespoon of condensed milk. This gives a nice texture and it is optional.

Ground nuts powder goes into this

Add in khoya and mix well

Mix cornflour in water or milk and add to this. The milk wiill start to thicken. After 1 to 2 mins, put off the flame

Take some kulfi mixture in a ladle, pour it to the kulfi mold

Close it with a lid. If using sticks, cover it with a foil.

Pace it in freezer for 8 hours until frozen

Once it freezes, show it running water and pull it out. It loosens and you will feel easy to remove. If you still feel difficult to take it, gently cut with a knife on the sides and pull it

Serve immediately!