Jigarthanda Recipe | Madurai Special Jil Jil Jigarthanda
Jigarthanda is one of the famous cold beverage in South Indian City Madurai, Tamilnadu. Jigar means heart and thanda means cold.
Servings 0
Ingredients
- Milk 1 litre
- Sugar ½ cup
- Nannari Syrup ½ cup
- Bhai Ice Cream as required
- Badam Pisin/Almond gum 2 tbsp
Instructions
- Prepare nannari syrup, Bhai Ice Cream and keep it ready.
- Soak Badam Pisin with enough water overnight.
- It will bloom and increase in volume. Use big vessel to soak so it doesn't overflow.
- Take milk in a pan.
- Allow it to boil and add sugar to it.
- Keep stirring continuously till it reduces to half of its volume.
- Allow it to cool down and chill in fridge overnight.
- Assemble all ingredients
- Take tall glass and add 2 tbsp of soaked badam pisin.
- Then add 1 tbsp of nannari syrup to it.
- Then add the reduced milk to ¾th of the glass.
- Finally top it with 1-2 scoops of bhai ice cream.
- Delicious Jil Jil Jigarthanda is ready.
Notes
Soak badam pisin, keep in fridge and use it as required. It keeps well for one month.
I used only reduced milk to make it rich. Usually they mix it with normal milk while preparing jigarthanda.
You can use store bought nannari syrup which will give nice orange color.
You can use store bought ice cream instead of bhai ice cream. But still I recommend to try bhai ice cream if you prefer the authentic taste of jigarthanda. It is completely different taste.
Prepare the reduced milk previous day and refrigerate so it is very chill while assembling.
You can use badam pisin, nannari syrup and ice cream according to your preference while assembling.
Nannari syrup and badam pisin as key ingredients so don't replace them.