Serve this sweet and delicious drink to your Iftar guests- Thandai

Thandai- you must be wondering what this dish might be. Make it and try it out.

Thandai (Sardai)

INGREDIENTS

For Sardai mixture

• 1 tbsp Poppy seeds/ cuscus (soaked)
• 1 cup Almonds (soaked)
• 5 tbsp Sugar
• ½ tsp whole black pepper
• 1 tsp Green Cardamom
• 4 tbsp dried melon seeds
• ½ cup water

For Sardai

• Sardai Mixture (Already Prepared)
• 1 cup Ice cubes
• 2 cup water
• Crushed Almonds (as needed for topping)

METHOD

For Sardai Mixture

• First of all, add poppy seeds, soaked almonds, in a clay pot & grind them well (you can use mortar & pestle for this purpose)
• Then add sugar, whole black peppers, green cardamoms, dried melon seeds, & grind again
• Add ½ cup water & mix well by adding water again. Sardai mixture is ready

For Sardai

• Put the sardai mixture (which is already prepared), ice cubes, 2 cup water in a grinder then grind well
• Take a muslin cloth & keep it in a bowl, then pour the grinded mixture (which we have prepared in previous step).
• Pick up this cloth from the top and squeeze it until all the liquid mixture came out
• Add this squeezed mixture into glass then complete topping with the help of crushed almonds
• Your traditional sardai is ready to serve