Basanti Yummy and Tasty Recipes Free | Home Made Sweet Basundi Recipe

Ingredients :

• Milk -- 3 liter(whole milk)
• Sugar -- 2 cups( 20 tsp)( 1 cup of milk= 2 tsp sugar)
• Cardamom crushed  -- 1 tsp
• Saffron  -- a pinch (optional)
• Crushed pistachios --5 tsp

Method :

•     On a non stick  flat bottom wide pan add milk and take a long  wooden handle spatula to stir.
•      Stir the milk continuously on the medium flame.
•     Stop stirring once milk boils.
•     Scoop out the fat layer formed on the boiling milk with spatula and collect it in a cup with little milk.
•     Continue collecting the cream until the milk reduce to 1/4 of its amount.( the milk gets thinner and thinner after collecting the fat.
•     Make sure u scrap the fat sticking on sides and bottom when stirring.
•     Add sugar when the milk is reduced to 1/4 of its amount.
•     Milk will turn watery after adding sugar , stir the milk continuously .
•     Add the kova ( fat which we collected and stored in a cup with little milk) and add cardamom powder and allow the milk to boil.
•     Once the milk starts to thicken stop the stove.
•     Add roasted and chopped  pistachios. ( can add  saffron soaked in milk for rich color and flavour )
•     Serve cold.