🇮🇷 Iranian/Persian Cuisine

فالوده

Rosewater Vermicelli Sorbet

Prep Time 15 min + freezing

Servings 4

Difficulty Easy

A delicate frozen dessert of thin rice noodles frozen in a rosewater and lime syrup, served semi-frozen with a drizzle of sour cherry syrup.

Ingredients

200g thin rice vermicelli noodles
2 cups sugar
3 cups water
3 tbsp rosewater
Juice of 2 limes
Sour cherry syrup (sharbat-e albaloo) for serving
Fresh lime wedges

Instructions

1 Cook rice noodles until soft. Drain and cut into 3cm lengths.
2 Make syrup: dissolve sugar in water over heat. Add rosewater and lime juice. Cool.
3 Combine noodles with syrup in a shallow container.
4 Freeze 3-4 hours, stirring with a fork every hour to create icy crystals.
5 Serve semi-frozen in bowls, drizzled with sour cherry syrup and a squeeze of lime.

Did You Know?

Faloodeh is believed to be the world's oldest frozen dessert, predating ice cream by over a thousand years — ancient Persians used mountain snow to freeze it.