Thandai is a milk base Indian origin drink. Refreshing effect. An easy Thandai recipe that is refreshing, healthy and delicious. Make this traditional thandai or shardai during summers or the Holi festival for a cooling, nutty, spiced drink.
Thandai is a traditional drink, popular in the northern parts of India. It is made with a mix of nuts, seeds and a few spices.
The word “thandai” means that which is cooling or cools and is derived from the word “thanda” which means “cool”or “cold” in Hindi language. It is also known as ‘shardai‘ or ‘sardai‘.
So as the name is, this beverage is cooling for the body. Some of the nuts, seeds, spices that make the thandai or shardai are cooling in nature like water-soaked almonds, poppy seeds, rose petals or gulkand (rose preserve) and fennel seeds.
Thandai has a nutty milky taste. It has a heady aroma and sweet scented flavors of the rose, cardamom and saffron coupled together with a some hits of pungency from the black pepper.
Thandai is one of those drinks that is made during Holi Festival and Mahashivratri. Bhang (cannabis) thandai is also consumed during both these festivals.
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