Basundi | Homemade Basundi | Sweet Recipes
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Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 1 big bowl
 
Creamy Basundi with lightly crunchy dry nuts and delicate saffron
Ingredients
  • 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)
Method
  1. In a thick bottomed non-stick pan, apply some ghee
  2. Boil milk
  3. Reduce to half quantity
  4. Chop the nuts
  5. Tip in the nuts into the boiled milk
  6. Add sugar and mix well till sugar melts
  7. Let the milk reduce further
  8. Add little saffron and elaichi powder
  9. Mix very well
  10. Let it reduce and thicken
  11. Lastly add a few dried rose petals
  12. Let the flavours infuse
  13. Chill before serving, it took about 1½ hours to make
Notes
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/