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Kulfi is a signature dish of India; we have verified places to eat it in Delhi and Jaipur. Dense frozen milk dessert set in cones or moulds, flavoured with cardamom, pistachio or saffron, and in Old Delhi also frozen inside whole fruits.
Dense frozen milk dessert set in cones or moulds, flavoured with cardamom, pistachio or saffron, and in Old Delhi also frozen inside whole fruits.
Kulfi is a frozen dairy dessert whose name comes from the Persian word for a covered cup, and many histories place its origin in Mughal Delhi in the sixteenth century. Milk was boiled down, flavoured with pistachio and saffron and frozen in sealed metal cones. The Times of India has named Kuremal Mohan Lal Kulfi Wale, founded in 1906 in Old Delhi, among the country's best-known kulfi makers.
Where to eat in Delhi:
Where to eat Kulfi in Delhi: the editor picks
A dense frozen milk dessert flavoured with saffron, pistachio or cardamom and set in moulds without churning; Jaipur's old-city kulfi shops stay open late.
Wikipedia traces kulfi to 16th-century Mughal Delhi and gives the name as Persian for covered cup, though historian Charmaine O'Brien suggests it evolved in Persia or Samarkand. It is milk slow-cooked until thick, then frozen in sealed moulds without churning. One Condé Nast Traveller India contributor writes that their father went to Pandit Kulfi on Hawa Mahal Road as a child, when it was still a pushcart, and Outlook Traveller Eats names kesar and rabri kulfi there, with Ramchandra Kulfi Wala in Tripolia Bazar as close competition.
Where to eat in Jaipur:
Where to eat Kulfi in Jaipur: the editor picks
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