Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Mango Kulfi Recipe is a vegetarian Indian dessert / sweet made with simple everyday ingredients in about 5 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: 5 minutes
  • Cook time: 1 minutes
  • Total time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 4 · 4 people
  • Category: Dessert / Sweet
  • Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups ripe mango ((chopped or 1 cup pulp with no citric acid added))
  • ½ tin (7 oz) sweetened condensed milk ((milkmaid, ½ of 397g tin))
  • 1 cup whipping cream ((chilled or homemade malai, refer notes))
  • ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder
  • 1 Pinch saffron ((kesar, optional, for color))
  • 2 tablespoons pistachios ((chopped finely))

Method

How to make Mango Kulfi

  1. If using saffron soak in 2 tablespoons hot water and keep aside. Wash and peel mango. Chop to cubes and add to a blender jar.
  2. Add chilled cream, saffron, condensed milk and cardamom powder to the jar.
  3. Blend on a medium speed until smooth. Stir in the chopped pistachios, reserving some for garnish.
  4. Transfer to kulfi moulds or steel cups or Popsicle moulds. Cover, insert sticks in the center and freeze them overnight or until set.
  5. Rub the moulds in between your palms or dip them in a bowl of water. You can also keep the base under running water.
  6. Gently loosen and remove mango kulfi. Garnish with crushed pista. Serve immediately.

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.