Varanasi
Malaiyo
A cloud of saffron milk foam that melts on the tongue. Banaras winter mornings in a kulhad.
40 minTime
9 gProtein each
mildSpice
Make it your way
Grandma's wayMilk left under the winter sky overnight, then churned to foam.
The original310kcal
9 gprotein
0 gfibre
40minutes
Malaiyo as Banaras sells it in winter.
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.
Ingredients
Method
4 steps- 1Boil the milk and simmer 10 minutes. Soak saffron in 2 tbsp warm milk.
- 2Cool, stir in cream and chill overnight in a wide uncovered vessel covered with muslin.
- 3Add sugar and cardamom and whisk hard, or use a hand blender, scooping off the foam into a bowl as it rises.
- 4Fold saffron milk through the foam, spoon into kulhads or cups, top with pistachios and serve at once.
Serve it like this
Spoon into earthen kulhads, sprinkle pistachios and saffron and serve at once with a small spoon.
