Kesar Elaichi Shrikhand | Sweet Recipes
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 350-400 gm
- Few strands of saffron/kesar
- 1 litre or 4 Cups thick fresh curd/yogurt made into 400Gm~ hung yogurt
- 5-6 powdered/pounded elaichi/cardamom
- ½ Cup sugar
- 1 pinch freshly grated/powdered nutmeg
- 2 Tbsp warm milk
- Soak saffron/kesar in warm milk
- In a bowl, take the hung yogurt and mix it slightly
- Add fine granulated sugar or powdered sugar
- Start mixing sugar with yogurt, do not overbeat or overmix it
- Fold all sugar into the thick curd/yogurt till smooth
- Pour in warm kesar soaked milk
- Mix well till kesar gets completely mixed
- Sprinkle powdered elaichi and nutmeg
- Mix all gently till smooth
- Serve at room temperature or chilled with puffy puris
Use genuine saffron/kesar for that unmistakable flavour and colour
Adjust sweetness as per your liking
Strained Greek yogurt can also be used to prepare this instantly and you can the skip the steps to make hung yogurt
Letting the shrikhand sit for sometime allows all flavours to amalgamate well with one another
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/kesar-elaichi-shrikhand/
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