A delicious match: Where the quintessential palada pradhaman meets creamy ice cream
Boomerang and A1 Chips have collaborated to create a palada pradhaman-flavored ice cream, blending traditional Kerala dessert flavors with modern frozen treat technology. The project highlights the scientific challenges of maintaining food texture and shelf life in fusion products.
Why it matters
It illustrates how food technology can be used to modernize traditional cultural dishes and expand their market reach.
An ice cream goodie box arrives from Boomerang. Curious, I scoop up a spoonful of the creamy indulgence and smile heartily. With every scoop of the melt-in-the mouth ice cream, I also bite into soft, chewy little flakes of the velvety palada pradhaman , the much-loved Onam treat. The new flavour blends the milky sweetness of the familiar pradhaman into a creamy scoop, a delicious meeting of the quintessential Onam dessert and ice cream. It is the result of Boomerang’s collaboration with A1 Chips.
“It is not easy to do a fusion. You cannot just take palada pradhaman and freeze it,” says Vanjimuthu Palaniswamy, director of Boomerang , adding that there is a lot of science that goes into this. “This is not about sales, it is about showcasing our capabilities.” For Boomerang, the collaboration is an opportunity to showcase its product-development capabilities and the science behind its ice creams.
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