Mukkani Millet Falooda

What is Mukkani? "Mu" means number "three" in "tamil" and" kani" means" fruit".So Mukkani means three fruits - not any three fruits.Its Maa (Mango), Palaa (Jack fruit) and Vaazhai (Banana)

I saw a Cookery Show in Tamil recently in which they demonstrated this recipe.But I made two variations

• Incorporated "Millet Vermicelli" instead of falooda sev / normal semiya
• Ice cream is added in the original recipe but I skipped it

Once the preparations are done its very simple and quick cooling dessert.Again as I say use full cream milk for kids and skimmed milk for adults

Ingredients

Part 1 - Fruits

• Mango - 3 nos (I used Rasaalu variety which is small in size)
• Jack fruit flesh - 10 nos
• Banana - 3 nos

Part 2 - Millet Sev / Vermicelli

• Millet Semiya / Vermicelli / Sev - 1/2 cup

• Milk - to cook the sev
• Raw sugar / unrefined cane sugar - 2 teaspoons (optional)

Part 3 - Others

• Sabja seeds / Basil seeds - 2 teaspoons
• Chilled milk - as required (use full cream for kids and skimmed milk for adults)
• Raw sugar / unrefined cane sugar - as required
• Saffron strands - little (soaked in milk)

Method

Step 1 - Soaking

• Soak sabja / basil seeds for about 10 minutes

• Also soak millet sev for about 5 minutes and drain it

Step 2 - Fruit puree

• Peel mango skin and chop into cubes.Run it in a mixer
• Cut jack fruit flesh into small pieces and grind it in a mixer
• Peel banana and cut it small pieces and grind it into a smooth puree

Pls Note: Wash your mixer jar before grinding each fruit

Step 3 - Cooking Millet Sev

• Pour milk to the drained sev.Add raw sugar and cook till it is soft.Add more milk if necessary while cooking

Step 4 - Mukkani Millet Falooda

• Now we have fruits puree and also our sabja seeds, millet sev are ready.Lets fill up the glass to make falooda

• Take two glasses add raw sugar / naatu sakkarai at the bottom.This is an optional step

• Add a tablespoon of sabja seeds in each glass

• Put 2 tablespoons of cooked millet semiya / sev in each glass

• Add 2 tablespoons of banana puree in each glass

• Then fill it up with jack fruit layer ie put 2 tablespoons of jack fruit puree in each glass

• Top it with mango layer - 2 tablespoons of mango puree in each glass

• Finally pour cold milk.Make sure the glass is just 3/4th filled

Now Mukkani Millet Falooda is ready.Serve it chilled