Jigarthanda recipe
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Madurai Jil Jil Jigarthanda Juice

Jigarthanda is a Milk based drinking dessert. This is a summer cooler for you, both inside out. A bit laborious, but when done correctly, it's definitely worth the effort
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time30 mins
freezing Jigarthanda ice cream8 hrs
Total Time8 hrs 40 mins
Course: Dessert, Drinks
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: drinking dessert, Jigarthanda, Jigarthanda Dessert, Jigarthanda Icecream, Jil Jil Jigarthanda
Servings: 4

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 1 Litre Milk
  • 8 tbsp Nannari sarbath (Sarsaparilla Extract)
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • 100 ml Khoya
  • 500 ml Cream
  • ΒΌ cup Water
  • 20-25 pieces Badam Pisin / Almond Gum

For sugar syrup

  • 4 tbsp sugar

Instructions

  • Soak Badam pisin overnight or a day before and store in refrigerator. It blooms and grows in quantity after soaking.

Sugar syrup

  • For sugar syrup, Heat sugar in a saucepan between medium to low heat. When sugar melts and starts caramelizing , add warm water of 1/3 cup.

Base of Jigarthanda

  • Boil 1 liter milk and keep stirring in-between. Keep adding the cream sticked on the sides of the vessel back to it.
  • Let it reduce to half the quantity. till then repeat the above steps. or just replace this step with 500 ml basundi.
  • Now, add sugar and koya to the reduced milk, give it a stir and continue cooking for 2 more minutes.
  • Switch off the stove. Let it come to room temperature.

Jigarthanda Ice cream

  • Blend fresh cream, prepared sugar syrup and the jigarthanda base prepared from previous step. *Save some sugar syrup for final drizzling too*
  • Separate the blended mixture into half quantity. One section goes into the freezer for ice cream and the other into the refrigerator for the rich, creamy base.

Layering / serving

  • Take a tall cup to hold all the layers.
  • Layer the bottom most layer with badam pisin / Almond Gum.
  • Add sugar syrup and nannari sarbath to it.
  • Now, add the reduced milk we refrigerated overnight.
  • Add a Scoop of Jigarthanda icecream above milk layer, from the freezer.
  • Drizzle it with sugar syrup finally and serve immediately.

Cheer's to Happy summers!