Falooda

Falooda is a cold, layered dessert-drink of the Indian subcontinent — chilled milk sweetened and dyed pink with rose syrup, poured over soft falooda vermicelli, soaked sweet-basil (sabja) seeds and pieces of jelly, then crowned with a scoop of kulfi or ice cream. It is eaten with both straw and spoon, and is at once a drink and a pudding. Descended from the Persian frozen sorbet faloodeh, it spread with the Mughals across South Asia and on into Myanmar, Malaysia and Mauritius, and is a fixture of weddings, festivals and hot-weather street stalls.