Basundi | Homemade Basundi | Sweet Recipes
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 1 big bowl
- 1¾ litre full cream milk
- ¼ Cup sugar
- 1 pinch saffron
- 5-6 cardamom
- 6-7 each of cashews, almonds and pistachios
- Few dried rose petals (optional)
- In a thick bottomed non-stick pan, apply some ghee
- Boil milk
- Reduce to half quantity
- Chop the nuts
- Tip in the nuts into the boiled milk
- Add sugar and mix well till sugar melts
- Let the milk reduce further
- Add little saffron and elaichi powder
- Mix very well
- Let it reduce and thicken
- Lastly add a few dried rose petals
- Let the flavours infuse
- Chill before serving, it took about 1½ hours to make
Always boil milk on low flame and while making basundi
Use any nuts of your choice, only cashews only almonds etc
Do not discard the cream, push it to the sides and mix with the milk, all the goodness is required to make this sweet
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/basundi/
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