Pista milk is a sweet, nutty milk drink flavoured with pistachio and cardamom. This guide covers what it is, how to make it with a pista milk powder, and what the powder costs in India.
Pista milk is hot or chilled milk flavoured with pistachio, a little cardamom and sugar. The quick way to make it is to stir a pista milk powder into hot milk. It needs no grinding, no boiling and no straining, so a cup takes about a minute.
What it is. A sweet, nutty milk drink served hot in winter and chilled in summer. Taste. Mellow, nutty and lightly spiced, with a rich aroma. How to make it. About 14 g of mix stirred into 100 ml of hot milk. Our powder. Pista Milk Mix, 500 g jar, ₹275 including GST.
Pista is the Hindi word for pistachio. Pista milk is a sweet milk drink flavoured with pistachio, often with cardamom and crushed nuts. It is a familiar drink at weddings, festivals and functions, and in summer it is served chilled.
At home it is made by grinding nuts, sugar and cardamom and simmering them in milk. A pista milk powder skips those steps. You stir it into milk and the drink is ready.
Our mix is a pista-flavoured milk powder. Pistachio is not in its ingredient list. The pista taste comes from permitted flavour, with cardamom powder and crushed almond and cashew. The ingredients are sugar, dextrose, non-dairy creamer, milk powder, corn powder, cardamom powder, crushed almond, crushed cashew, permitted flavour, permitted colour (INS 102, 142) and an anticaking agent (INS 551).
This is the method printed for our Pista Milk Mix:
For cold pista milk, dissolve the powder in warm milk first for a smooth mix, then pour over ice. You can also blend it with chilled milk for an iced version.
Use milk, not water. The mix is made to be stirred into milk, and with water the drink tastes thin. Any milk the customer likes will work.
Our Pista Milk Mix is ₹275 for a 500 g jar (MRP, including GST). There is no minimum for a single jar. Businesses buying by the case of 30 jars get 10% off MRP with a GSTIN, and 20% off with free ground shipping on orders of ₹19,999 and above. It ships across India from Hyderabad within 7 days.
What a café or caterer charges for a glass of pista milk depends on its milk, glass size and garnish, so menu prices vary.
Our Pista Milk Mix comes in a 500 g jar, 30 jars to a case, made at our FSSC 22000 certified plant in Hyderabad. It is vegetarian and Halal. It keeps 12 months sealed. Store it cool and dry and reseal after opening. The powder contains milk and nuts, so pista milk made with it is not dairy-free or nut-free. We also make custom milk-mix formulations and private-label packs for cafés, chains and institutional buyers.
Pista milk is hot or chilled milk flavoured with pistachio, a little cardamom and sugar.
Heat 100 ml of milk. Add about 14 g (1 tablespoon) of Pista Milk Mix. Stir until fully dissolved. Taste and adjust, then serve hot.
For cold pista milk, dissolve the powder in warm milk first for a smooth mix, then pour over ice. You can also blend it with chilled milk for an iced version.
Our Pista Milk Mix is ₹275 for a 500 g jar (MRP, including GST). There is no minimum for a single jar. Businesses buying by the case of 30 jars get 10% off MRP with a GSTIN, and 20% off with free ground shipping on orders of ₹19,999 and above.
Our mix is a pista-flavoured milk powder. Pistachio is not in its ingredient list. The pista taste comes from permitted flavour, with cardamom powder and crushed almond and cashew.
The powder contains milk and nuts, so pista milk made with it is not dairy-free or nut-free.
We make Pista Milk Mix at our FSSC 22000 plant in Hyderabad, 500 g jars 30 to a case, shipped across India in 7 days.
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