Homemade Horlicks Recipe | How To Make Horlicks At Home with detailed photo and video recipes. A beneficial and tasty energy drink mix powder prepared with sprout wheat grains. It is basically sweet malted drink powder prepared at home with the basic ingredients available at home without purchasing the store-bought alternative. There are myriad flavors of traditional Horlicks powder that can be prepared, but this post covers the 2 most popular ways.
Homemade Horlicks Recipe | How To Make Horlicks At Home with step-by-step photo and video recipes. Energy drink recipes have become an integral part of our day-to-day recipes. There are myriad store-bought options that are particularly targeted at women and kids for better health and nutrition. One such healthy milk-based sweet malt drink is Horlicks powder and this recipe post shows how to make this powder at home with many flavors.
I have posted quite a few recipes regarding the energy drink or decoding the store-bought recipe. But this recipe of Horlicks has to be a complex recipe out of all. It is not to do with the set of ingredients, but the time and planning it takes to prepare it. Unlike any other grains, it takes a couple of days to plan to sprout the wheat grains. The wheat sprouts are subject to controlled temperature and the quantity of wheat grains used. Currently, it is winter season here in Australia, and it took 3-4 days in a slow cooker. At one point I had given up the idea of homemade horlicks recipe, but soon I saw tiny sprouts erupting. Apart from this long wait, the recipe is easy to prepare and hence worth having in your pantry.
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About Homemade Horlicks:
It is basically a finely powdered malt or nutritional supplement magic powder that is mixed with hot or warm milk and served to kids or women. Horlicks powder is a popular energy drink produced and distributed by GlaxoSmithKline in various countries. It was first marketed as a meal replacement, especially as a lite dinner meal. However, soon the entire narrative was changed after the backlash and rebranded as a nutritional supplement.
Preparing Horlicks at home can be a tedious task as it requires a lot of planning and time, especially sprouting the wheat grain. Depending upon the location, and whether condition the sprouting can be easy or complex. Once the sprouts have erupted, the powder mixture can hardly take a few steps to prepare the final homemade horlicks powder.
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Homemade Horlicks Recipe | How To Make Horlicks At Home
Ingredients
- 1 cup wheat
- water, water soaking
- 3 tbsp badam / almonds
- 2 tbsp peanut
- ¼ cup mishri / rock candy
- 4 pods cardamom
- ¾ cup milk powder
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
Instructions
- firstly, in a large bowl soak 1 cup wheat in water for 12 hours. make sure to rinse the wheat a couple of times before soaking.
- after soaking the wheat, drain off the water and tie in a cloth.
- rest for 2 days or until the sprouts are formed.
- now take the sprouted wheat and roast on low flame.
- roast until the wheat turns crisp, removing the moisture from the wheat.
- now add 3 tbsp badam, 2 tbsp peanut, and continue to roast.
- roast until the nuts turn crisp too.
- cool completely, and transfer to the mixer jar.
- add ¼ cup mishri, 4 pods cardamom, and grind to a fine powder.
- transfer the mixture to the sieve.
- add ¾ cup milk powder and sieve using a fine sieve.
- mix well combining everything well.
- finally, homemade Horlicks are ready to enjoy by mixing them with warm milk.
- to prepare chocolate-flavoured horlicks, for 4 tbsp of prepared horlicks, add 1 tbsp cocoa powder.
- mix well combining everything well.
- finally, Homemade Chocolate Horlicks are ready to enjoy by mixing them with warm milk.
Nutrition
How to make Homemade Horlicks with step-by-step photos:
- firstly, in a large bowl soak 1 cup wheat in water for 12 hours. make sure to rinse the wheat a couple of times before soaking.
- after soaking the wheat, drain off the water and tie in a cloth.
- rest for 2 days or until the sprouts are formed.
- now take the sprouted wheat and roast on low flame. roast until the wheat turns crisp, removing the moisture from the wheat.
- now add 3 tbsp badam, 2 tbsp peanut, and continue to roast.
- roast until the nuts turn crisp too.
- cool completely, and transfer to the mixer jar.
- add ¼ cup mishri, 4 pods cardamom, and grind to a fine powder.
- transfer the mixture to the sieve. add ¾ cup milk powder and sieve using a fine sieve.
- mix well combining everything well.
- finally, homemade Horlicks are ready to enjoy by mixing them with warm milk.
- to prepare chocolate-flavoured horlicks, for 4 tbsp of prepared horlicks, add 1 tbsp cocoa powder.
- mix well combining everything well.
- finally, Homemade Chocolate Horlicks are ready to enjoy by mixing them with warm milk.
Notes:
- Firstly, using sprouted wheat helps to double the nutritional properties.
- Also, grind the roasted wheat to a fine powder. else the horlicks will not mix well with milk.
- Additionally, you can add sugar or jaggery powder in place of mishri for sweetness.
- finally, Homemade Horlicks Recipe stays good for 1 month in an airtight container.