tukmaria
sweet basil seeds

The flavoring turns the milk pink; then come the ice cream, a few tukmaria seeds (from the basil family) and rice vermicelli.

But that was before she moaned over the ice cream - mango, pistachio or chocolate - and the kulfi falooda, a liquid pleasure of rose-flavored (and colored) milk, more of that ice cream, a sprinkle of black-centered tukmaria seeds (from the basil family), and rice vermicelli.

The best Bombay-style dish we tasted was the falooda, a concoction that includes ice cream, heavy cream, a sprinkling of noodles from which it derives its name, tukmaria seeds (from the basil family) that swell and soften in liquid, the merest drop of red food coloring and just the right amount of rosewater.