How to Make Milk with Almonds, Rose Petal & Saffron (Thandai)
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SERVINGS:
1
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PREP TIME:
5 MINUTES
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COOK TIME:
0 MINUTES
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INGREDIENTS
1/4 c | |
1 tbsp | |
1 c | |
1/4 tsp | |
2 pinch | |
2 pinch | |
2 pinch | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Grind fennel seeds and cardamom in coffee grinder. Add all ingredients to a blender and puree until completely smooth. Serve cold.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Delicate rose intertwines with aromatic saffron, suspended in cool, soothing milk. Almonds offer their smooth, nutty flavor to your glass. This delicious recipe is a variation of thandai, a classic Indian cooling drink with khus (vetiver). Imagine lounging on a wide porch somewhere steamy and hot like New Orleans, South India, or Georgia, doing what you can to escape the blazing midday sun. Pour yourself a glass of cool Milk with Saffron, Almonds & Rose, sip quietly, and feel your body temperature simmer down to comfort.
Anti-Inflammatory
One sip of Milk with Saffron, Almonds, & Rose gives the relief of moving from the blazing sun to protective shade of a tree. This immediate cooling effect lets you know that this recipe is anti-inflammatory. Milk soothes an irritated GI tract while rose, saffron, and fennel are all cooling to you tissues.
Rare Cooling Spices
Although many spices are heating, fennel is tempered by a cool quality the calms the mind and increases clarity. As a diuretic it relieves Pitta, flushing and soothing burning sensations in the urinary tract and detoxifying the blood. Fennel has been shown to protect the liver of experimental animals from chemical toxicity.
Rose and saffron are also a cooling aromatic that soothes overheated pitta types any day of the week.
Cooling Blood Purifier
Saffron is a nourishing purifier that invigorates and moves the blood while cooling it. Saffron breaks up blood clots and clears liver stagnation. While most blood movers are heating, saffron is unique among blood movers for its cooling properties. This makes saffron a useful herb for Pitta disorders with blood stagnation, including inflammation, arthritis, acne, and hepatitis.
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