Homemade Gulkand Recipe / Rose Petal Preserve Recipe
How to Make Gulkand at home - A Traditional Indian Rose Petal Preserve made with fresh rose petals.
Servings: 2 tbsp
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rose Petals tightly packed (petals of fragrant and light pink roses)
- 3 tbsp Sugar
Instructions
- Collect the fresh and fragrant rose petals.
- Gently wash the petals with water and let them dry on a paper or cloth.
- Put the petals into the mixie. Quickly pulse the petals one or two times to shred them. You can also chop the petals into pieces.
- Spread a layer of rose petals in a dry glass jar.
- Now spread a layer of sugar over the rose petals evenly.
- Then again spread a layer of petals over the sugar layer.
- Repeat till all the petals are over.
- Close the jar with a lid and keep it in the sunlight for 7 – 10 days
- Mix the gulkand every other day using a clean spoon.
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate it.
- You can store it for a year or more.
How to Make Gulkand with Step by Step Photos:
- Collect the fresh and fragrant rose petals.
- Gently wash the petals with water and let them dry on a paper or cloth.
- Put the petals into the mixie. Quickly pulse the petals one or two times to shred them. You can also chop the petals into pieces.
- Spread a layer of rose petals in a dry glass jar.
- Now spread a layer of sugar over the rose petals evenly.
- Then again spread a layer of petals over the sugar layer.
- Repeat till all the petals are over.
- Close the jar with a lid and keep it in the sunlight for 7 – 10 days
- Mix the gulkand every other day using a clean spoon.
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate it.
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Can I use dry rose petals? If so, do I have to hydrate them before use? Thanks!
No, use fresh petals only.
Different recipe… first time i am seeing this…
how cool
we love gulkand…bookmarked this…looks very inviting.. very happy to follow you…
Hi, can you please tell me where i can get edible rose petal?in india?
Hi, you can find them in flowers markets.
Please tell me it could be stored till a month??
You can store it for upto a year or even more. Thanks! 🙂
Hi, I saw in the recipe that we should keep the jar in the sunlight for 7-10 days. Should we place it under the sun for the whole day or for a certain number of hours per day?
And, should we mix the Gulkand during or after the whole process?
Thanks !
Hi.. Yes, we should place the jar under the sun entire day and mix it every other day during the process. 🙂
Where we live in California it is foggy and not sunny during Rose season is it possible to make this when it’s foggy
Sorry. It is not possible.