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This weekend was pleasant and enjoyable. Had fun on Saturday with Uttara and Sharan, with Uttara and me sandal-hunting for a while and the three of us eating away wintry foodstuff for lunch. Did the honours of introducing my all-time favourite frosty fare(alliteration after a long time !!) - 'Gola Ganda' (Ice lolly) to the other two. For those of you, who don't know what Gola is, here goes :

In three words, Gola is nothing but Ice on stick. It's the unparalleled pick (as far as sacharine frozen food is concerned) of all North Indians. You are bound to find a red, yellow, blue and green(read flashy) gaadi, in every nook and corner of Mumbai/Delhi, with a busy golawaala, crushing ice and pouring slurpalicious syrup over the ice and serving the 'in-demand' item to the young and old alike. I've inserted pictures of how Gola Ganda is basically prepared in this post, because sometimes pictures speak more than words :)

Aim :
To Prepare Gola Ganda

Items Required :
A block of ice, a stick and a syrup of your choice (And Chaat powder too, if you like the taste of chaat powder. Personally, I am not for it)

Procedure :

Step 1 : Crush the block of ice, using a crushing machine and collect it in a vessel and then compress that crushed ice into a disposable tumbler. Insert a stick, right in the middle of that condensed mass of ice.


The product, formed as a result of the 1st step will look like this
(Hygiene Check : Disposable tumblers are preferred over glass tumblers)



Step 2 : Pour the syrup of your choice over that squashed mass of ice. The flavours available are gulaab (red rose), Orange, Mango, Kala Khatta(It's dark purple in colour), Kachcha Aam (Raw mango) and Khuskhus.


Step 3 : Serve cold. Eat it, with a handkerchief in your hand. Only experienced people, can eat Gola without droplets of syrup falling on those new, white tees/salwar kameezes. Have fun licking succulent gola-gandas. This icy preparation with 'gooey' stuff all over it will surely tickle your taste-buds. That's Gola for you !

Pic courtesy : Google Images

Music : Aaj ki raat - Don

Blathered by Nithya at 11:11 AM |  

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