Rose Ice Cream | No Churn Rose Ice cream recipe

Rose Ice Cream, a delicious , flavorful and  easy to make homemade ice cream. This Rose ice cream is a no-churn ice cream so you can make this easily at home with a blender. It's such a simple recipe with a very few ingredients, but the taste and flavors are simply amazing.

If you like rose milk or rose flavor in general then this rose ice cream is definitely for you. Do give it a try and i'm sure that you would be amazed by its deliciousness.

Heavy Cream 

The key ingredient of this ice cream is the heavy/full fat cream. Here in the recipe, i have used cream with 35% fat. Higher fat content gives the richness to the ice cream. So highly recommend  to use full fat cream.

Sugar

Make sure to add the sugar when the cream starts to thicken, then only the sugar will be all melted when the cream reaches its peak. 

 However you can also use condensed milk for more richness. If you're using condensed milk, you can add it in the cream when it reaches peak and gently fold it. 

Flavoring 

Rose essence is the key to the flavor of this ice cream. If you're using rose water instead of rose essence then add more rose water because its flavor is not very concentrated. 

Freezing 

When freezing this ice cream / any ice cream, make sure the cling wrap touches the ice cream completely. It prevents the ice crystal formation and gives a super smooth ice cream.

Scooping

For perfect ice cream scoop, keep the ice cream out of freezer for 2-3 mins and then dip the ice cream scoop in the warm water and scoop the ice cream. It would be easy to scoop a perfect ball of ice cream.

Rose Ice Cream | No-Churn Ice cream recipe

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 0 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Ice Cream | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Rose Ice Cream, No Churn Ice cream, Rose flavored Ice cream, Pink Ice cream Rose Ice Cream, a delicious , flavorful and easy to make homemade ice cream.

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Ingredients

Heavy Cream - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/3 cup

Rose essence - 4 drops

Red food color - 3 to 4 drops

Procedure

In a bowl, add the cream and start beating the cream with a hand blender.

Once the cream starts to thicken, add the sugar, rose essence and food color.

Blend it all together until it forms soft peak. Transfer the mixture into a bowl and cover it with cling paper tightly. Make sure that the cling paper touches the cream.

Cover again with butter paper to avoid any water crystalization and then keep it in the freezer for minimum 8 hrs or overnight.Once it froze, remove the cling paper, scoop and serve.

Delicious Rose Ice cream is ready to enjoy !

Related : How to make Strawberry Sorbet

Notes:

• You can use condensed milk instead of sugar.
• You can use rose milk syrup instead of rose essence and color,  that too gives the same taste.
• You can freeze this ice cream in any freezer safe container.

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Rose Modak / Rose Kozhukattai, a steamed dumpling with rose flavored coconut stuffing, shaped to look like a rose. I had this idea of making rose kozhukattai in my mind for a while even after I watched the video of making rose momos. 

But I was not sure about the rice flour dough since it's not as pliable as all purpose flour dough. Two months ago, I tried making a pathiri recipe and it was a complete disaster at first attempt, i couldn't shape at least one decently! 

In the next attempt, my pathiri was ok, so after a few attempts, I'm quite confident that I can make some decent pathiri. You may wonder why I'm talking about pathiri now, let me come to the point, actually in the process of making pathiri only, I learned how to make soft and pliable rice flour dough, which was very useful in the making of  these  rose modak.

I knew that these rose shapes are not that perfect but still i'm happy with the output on my first attempt. As I said before, the dough texture is really important to make this rose modak. 

And also it's easily cracked while shaping, so be generous with oil, apply to your fingertips and on the dough, that somehow helps to shape them decently. To be honest I was exhausted after shaping only 6 of them. It's really time consuming and tiresome work.

While shaping the dough make sure that the remaining dough is covered with damp cloth. The dough dries out easily and makes it hard to shape them. 

Next, don't use more filling, again it makes it hard to shape them and also be gentle while rolling them, it might crack, don't worry it all comes together at the end or even the slight cracking in the dough makes them look more natural.

After all the attempts, still you can't shape them as roses, don't worry, you can use the same dough and filling for regular modak, so try the traditional modak shape ! 

For more kozhukattai and sundal recipes, check out the full ganesh chathurthi collection .

Rose Modak | Rose Kozhukattai

Preparation Time : 20 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Makes : 6 
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Rose Modak, Rose Kozhukattai Rose Modak / Rose Kozhukattai, a steamed dumpling with rose flavored coconut stuffing, shaped to look like rose.

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Ingredients
For outer layer
Rice flour - 1/2 cup
Water - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp
Salt - a pinch
Sesame oil -1/2 tsp
For stuffing
Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup(heaped)
Sugar - 1/3 cup
Rose essence - 2 drops
Rose food color - 2 drops

Procedure

First let's make the filling, in a pan, add the grated coconut and sugar. Keep it on the flame and cook till all the sugar melts and it comes together as single mass. Add the rose essence at this stage , mix it well and switch off the flame.

Then add the food color, mix it thoroughly and keep it aside until use. For the outer dough, take the rice flour in a bowl add the salt and sesame oil, mix it  thoroughly.

Heat the water until it comes to vigorous boil and then add into the flour and mix it quickly. Cover it with lid and set aside for 5 mins.

Then knead the dough until it becomes smooth on the top. Take the dough and make a small gooseberry sized balls, take a ball and spread it with your finger tips and make a thin disc. Dip your fingers in oil while shaping them.

Similarly make three discs and place it on one over another as shown below. Then take the stuffing and place it in the middle, fold the disc into half starting from the one on the top.

Once you fold them all, start rolling from the one end to another and pinch together at the end. 

That's it, our rose modak is ready to steam, do the same for the remaining dough. Place it on the steamer basket.

Steam it for 10 mins in medium flame.

Tada, Cute looking and absolutely delicious rose modak is ready.

Related: How to make Peanut Kozhukattai / Verkadalai Kozhukattai

Notes:

• Use fine variety of rice flour or use the idiyappam flour. It gives the pilable dough.
• After pouring the hot water, mix it immediately and rest it for 5 mins. It helps to make the dough soft and smooth.
• You can make the regular shape modak with this stuffing. The stuffing is really delicious.
  

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Paneer Soda | Rose Soda | Summer Drinks

Paneer Soda, a refreshing aerated drink with rose flavor. "Paneer" in tamil means rose flavored water, i guess the word "paneer" comes from the rose name(paneer rose) and the water made from that paneer rose(we call it as simply "Paneer") is used extensively for abishekam in the temples and also in marriages and other ceremonies where it is sprinkled on people's head to welcome them.

Nowadays, you can see the small fan in the entrance of many marriage hall, that sprinkle paneer over the people while entering the marriage hall. Yeah, it's totally different from the paneer, the Indian cottage cheese and no way related to that.

While grew up, i had this belief in my mind that the paneer flavor(aka rose flavor) is only for abhisekam and welcoming people and it's not edible. I don't know how i got this idea, may be because elders in our family warned many times "don't put it in your mouth" when they asked us to buy paneer for abhisekam or any temple festival.

Related: How to make Nannari Lemon Sarbath

They may warned us because it's artificially flavored and has lot of chemicals in it, but in my mind, it was craved like "rose flavor is not edible", how weird is that?? So for very long time, i had hard time to enjoy anything with rose flavor, still i do some times. Even today i prefer cardamon flavored gulab jamun over the rose flavored ones. 

Ok, enough with my stories, let's move on to today's recipe. This paneer soda is the most popular aerated drink that you can see in many road side shops in South Tamilnadu. Now it's available in ready to use bottle also, last time, during my india visit, i had one such bottle near Tiruchendur Murugan temple, don't know whether it's available all over Tamilnadu or not. 

But, If you like rose flavor, then i'm sure that you would go crazy for this drink, one time, i made this drink for one of my friends who loves rose flavor like anything and she keep on praising me for introducing this drink to her till today

Related: How to make Rose Milk

Before check out the recipe,if you want to know what i have prepared for past 5 days under "Street food" theme, here they are
Day 1 - Dahi Papdi Chaat
Day 2 - Bhel Puri
Day 3 - Jalebi
Day 4 - Nannari Paal Sharbath
Day 5 - Spinach Masala Dosa

Paneer Soda

Preparation Time : 2 mins | Cooking Time : 5 mins | Serves : 4  
Recipe Category: Summer Drinks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Paneer soda, Rose flavored soda, summer drink,tamilnadu special Paneer Soda, a refreshing aerated drink with rose flavor.Perfect as summer drink

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Ingredients
Rose essence - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Soda - as needed
Ice cubes - few

Procedure

First let's make sugar syrup, take the sugar in a sauce water and add the water into it. Turn the heat on and bring to boil.Once the sugar dissolves completely, switch off the flame and let it cool completely.

Then add the rose essence into the sugar syrup and stir it well. Tada, your rose syrup is ready. Take a serving glass, pour 1/4 of the glass with rose syrup.

For the remaining, fill it up with soda and finally add few ice cubes. Simple & aromatic Paneer soda is ready. Serve it immediately.For more summer drink and popsicle recipe, check out here

Related: How to make Panagam

Notes:

• Pour the soda just before serving. Otherwise the soda would be flat.
• Depends on how flavorful you want the soda, you can add more or less of rose essence in the sugar syrup.
• Sugar syrup is enough for making 4 small servings.
  

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