A Must-Try Balushi Homemade Ice Cream in Muscat

Here in Oman, Balushi housewives are famous for making and selling creamy, sweet, and sometimes salty summer treats in their residential neighbourhoods throughout the city. Homemade ice cream in vibrant colours (thanks to food colouring) in flavours ranging from sweet strawberry to salty, sour laban (yoghurt), are sold frozen into disposable plastic cups or rolled into ice cream balls that are quickly devoured by neighbourhood children and nostalgic adults. Take a drive and pick up these traditional summer sweets for 100 baisa each or try your hand at making them yourself. —[email protected]

Strawberry Ice cream
Ingredients:
For 5-8 persons
• 6 cups water
• 700g milk powder
• 21/2 cup sugar (you can add more if needed)
• 1/2 cup rose water
• 3 teaspoon pink food colour
• 28ml strawberry flavoured liquid

Preparation:
• In a large bowl, add six cups of water and 700g of milk powder. Mix them and make sure the lumps dissolve completely.
• Add 21/2 cups of sugar into the melted milk and make sure the sugar has dissolved well.
• Then add half a cup of rose water and 3 teaspoon of pink colour (liquid food colour).
• Add 28ml of strawberry flavoured liquid and mix all the ingredients well.
• Put the ice-cream mixture in plastic cups or ice-cream moulds and freeze them for 5-6 hours or until completely frozen.

Basic Balushi Ice cream
Ingredients:
For 5-8 persons
• 6 cups of warm water
• 700g milk powder
• 500g yoghurt
• Salt to taste
• 1 teaspoon lemon salt

Preparation:
• In a large bowl, add six cups of warm water and 700g of milk powder and mix them well. Make sure it mixes well and there are no lumps
• Add 500g of yoghurt to the melted milk and mix it well.
• Cover it with a lid and place it in a dry and closed place for at least 8 hours.
• After 8 hours put it on low heat for 10 minutes and add salt to taste. Add 1 teaspoon
of lemon salt.
• Put the ice cream mixture in plastic cups or ice cream moulds and put them in the freezer for 5-6 hours.

Balushi Yoghurt ball
Ingredients:
For making yoghurt ice ball you need the same ingredients as that of Balushi ice cream and while preparing follow the same steps with these changes.

Preparation:
After keeping the milk mixture for at least 8 hours, for yoghurt balls you need to put it on very low heat for 30 minutes and filter the milk mixture with a clean cheesecloth and drain it completely. Take the dry milk and shape into small balls. Put them in the freezer until frozen.

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