Vegan food and desserts are slowly gaining a popular base amongst foodies across our country. With many celebrities hailing the vegan diet for its various health benefits, the plant based diet has become the latest food trend of 2022. While vegan meats and vegan milk are some of the common vegan diet options popularly available in grocery stores, vegan desserts were an area that needed huge focus. Taking the much needed step towards repleting the dearth of vegan desserts, India’s first 100% vegan millet milk based ice-cream parlour has opened up in South India. In the region of Trichy, in Tamil Nadu, this ice-cream parlour makes ice creams from millet milk that are a 100% vegan.
For the uninitiated, Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of meat or the by-products of animals (including dairy products), particularly in diet, and an associated ideology that shuns the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows this diet or philosophy is known as a vegan. Since the vegans do not drink milk obtained from any animal including a cow or a buffalo, many times they have to struggle to find a good dessert parlour that sells vegan ice-creams. However, the parlour that we are talking about has put an end to this problem for the residents who live near the Trichy region of Tamil Nadu. So what does the vegan ice cream parlour mean when it says that it is selling ice-creams made from millet milk?
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Milk can be extracted from millets. Ragi milk is an example of millet milk. Ragi milk is extremely popular. Sprouted Ragi grains are used for the purpose of extracting milk from Ragi. Other examples of millets that are used to make millet milk are: the Foxtail millet and Proso millet. Both of these millets are used to extract millet milk to make various vegan delicacies.
The vegan parlour in Trichy has a name similar to your AI assistant. Any guesses? It’s Siri! At Siri in Trichy, there is no dearth of flavours of vegan ice-creams. You’ll be able to enjoy not only 3-4 flavours of vegan ice cream, but more than 15 of them. Some of the common vegan ice-cream flavours include Mango Jamun, Custard Apple, Banana, Strawberry etc. The eatery claims that no artificial flavours are added to these ice-creams. If you’re a foodie who prefers more main-stream flavours of ice-cream than the ones mentioned above, rest assured that you’ll also be able to find evergreen flavours like Chocolate, Date, Jaggery and Peanut Butter ice creams. The must-try ice-cream of the season at Siri is the combination of Guava with Chilli ice cream. Unique flavours like Ginger Ice Cream and Raw Mango with Chilli Ice Cream are also available for dare devils!
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It’s not just ice-creams, Siri also serves ice-cream based milkshakes that are made from seasonal fruit flavoured ice-creams as the base - like strawberry or mango ice-creams. The milkshakes obviously involve the use of millet milk. You can choose to either go to the ice-cream parlour and eat there or get the ice-cream packed for take away. The prices are extremely affordable, with a rate of ₹30 for one scoop of ice-cream. If you’re in or around Trichy, and would like to pay this parlour a visit, here’s the address: Siri – House of Vegan Ice Cream, 7th Cross Road, Near Pillai Dental Care, Trichy, Tamil Nadu.
