Milk Masala Powder is a fragrant healthy mix or blend that is added to flavor milk. This healthy blend is made with nuts, rose petals and a few fragrant spices.
Heat a heavy frying pan or skillet and add these ingredients - almonds, pistachios, cashews, pumpkin seeds/melon seeds.
Dry roast for 3 to 4 minutes on a low heat stirring often until lightly toasted.
Remove and keep aside in a plate or tray. Use fresh nuts and not the ones whose shelf life has expired.
In the same pan, add the saffron strands.
Keeping heat to a low, stir and roast for more than half a minute, till the color of the saffron changes to a darker shade. Remove and keep aside.
Grate the nutmeg and keep aside.
Once the nuts cool down, then add everything in a dry grinder jar, including rose petals, fennel, black pepper, turmeric powder, cardamom seeds and sugar.
If you have a small dry grinder jar, then you will have to grind in batches. Grind to a fine powder. Grind in short spurts and not at a stretch.
Remove the Milk Masala Powder and keep in an airtight container or jar. Store in the fridge or freezer, as the nuts may get rancid.
The recipe yields a medium jar of milk powder.
To serve, dissolve 2 to 3 teaspoons of the Milk Masala Powder in a glass of hot milk or chilled milk. Add sugar as required. Stir and serve the flavored milk.
Notes
If you want to skip saffron and add turmeric powder, then just add an overall amount of ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder.
You can also skip adding turmeric powder, if you prefer.
If not adding pumpkin/melon seeds, then reduce the quantity of following spices to: Green cardamoms - 14 to 15 Black pepper - ⅛ to ¼ teaspoon Fennel seeds - ½ teaspoon, optional Grated or powdered nutmeg - 2 to 2.5 teaspoon Turmeric powder - ⅛ to ¼ teaspoon, optional
If stored in fridge, then shelf life of this milk masala powder is about 1 to 2 months. You can also store it in the freezer.
For a dairy free version, use almond milk or soy milk. If using soy milk, then use organic and Non GMO soy milk.
Note that the approximate nutrition info is for the entire lot of the blend made with this recipe.