If you've ever gotten Indian food at a restaurant, chances are you've taken a peek at the dessert offering. If you're anything like me, then that's all you did - just peek - because there was no way you could stuff a dessert into your belly after gorging on vegetable samosas, naan, biryani, tandoori chicken, saag paneer, gobi aloo, and maybe even some chicken tikka masala. If you're crazy like that, you know.
However, there have been one or two occasions on which I actually did have enough room for dessert, and once, I got kulfi. If ever you thought that gelato was a craze, I am telling you, kulfi is next, and KoolFreeze might be the one to kick it off with Kulfi bars. They have taken the Middle Eastern and Indian version of ice cream and put it on a stick.
The reason that kulfi has its own special category is that it is made from boiled milk, making the texture much creamier than regular ice cream. KoolFreeze's kulfi on a stick come in flavors that are slightly more exotic than the usual vanilla, chocolate and coffee, but are more traditional to kulfi - mango, pistachio, coconut, saffron. There are also flavor names that are completely new to me. Chikoo is the fruit also known as sapote in Mexico, Malai is plain cream, and Faluda is rose oil and tiny rice noodles.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-15-2006 @ 2:53AM
amelia said...
Thanks for featuring KoolFreeze's kulfi products! I love Indian made ice cream products. I'm going to try and get my friend to order it for sale at her restaurant/store.
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8-15-2006 @ 7:41AM
Hawk said...
So, it's basically frozen pudding? (boiled milk)
I'm up for that.
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8-15-2006 @ 11:09AM
Aaron said...
Toscanini's in Cambridge, MA has khulfi ice cream--it's really really good.
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8-15-2006 @ 4:20PM
spline9 said...
Sounds really good. If I see it in the stores, I'll have to check it out.
I had some Mashti Malone's ice cream for the first time the other week. It was my understanding that faluda refers to the rice noodles. I had a sampling of the Sour Cherry Faluda. It was very tasty but the noodles have a strange texture (probably because its so cold). I'll have to have a proper helping to see how I like it. I'm sure I will since I'm not prone to having issues with texture.
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8-16-2006 @ 12:46AM
Jim said...
Can't believe how popular these Kool Freeze Kulfi bars are becoming. In LA you find them in most Indian stores - my family is addicted to them. Recently saw them in Whole Foods in northern cal. I just the rich creamy taste, and what's amazing is that you just crave to have more. While I better stop or i'll burst. BTW I have had Masti Malone, good stuff but its just ice cream. Rose, Orange Blossom...their faluda I am told is more a middle eastern style - like slushed ice with noodles, and i think basil seeds - was not that impressed with it. Prefer the creamy Faluda kulfi bar better with smaller micro particles of rice noodles. Next I am off to try some Dr. Bob's - was told they make some good ice cream.
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8-16-2006 @ 1:07AM
Imi said...
Love kulfi, if its good and authenic in taste Though the shapes I am used to is more a cone like look. Well these guys claim its all natural, egg free, rich and creamy - what a novel concept for an indian product...perhaps its just as well its not cone shaped since most of those guys making the product here skimp on the milk, and will probably have every artificial flavor and coloring in it known to man - no nut no fruit. Cheapskates. I am going to try this one and let you guys know if it cuts the mustard with a real indian.
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8-17-2006 @ 4:28PM
Walt Schmidt said...
Hmmm. The KoolFreeze website (http://www.koolfreeze.com/) isn't resolving?!?
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8-23-2006 @ 10:08PM
koolfreeze said...
the kool freeze site is workkingg
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