Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Homemade Horlicks Recipe | How To Make Horlicks At Home is a vegetarian Indian instant mix made with wheat, water, and badam / almonds in about 2920 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 2920 minutes
- Yield: 1 Box
- Category: instant mix
- Cuisine: Indian
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
Method
- 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.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
