Basundi Recipe - Creamy Sweetened Milk
Basundi is a delicious dessert made by reducing milk , sweetened with sugar and flavoured with saffron , rose water and cardamom.
Keyword Festivals, Sweets
Prep Time 5 minutes minutes Total Time 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes
- 1 litre Full Fat Milk
- 3 tablespoon Sugar or as required
- ½ teaspoon Cardamom powder or crush 4-5 cardamom seeds
- 1 pinch nutmeg powder
- 1 pinch Saffron strands
- 1 tablespoon Almonds chopped
- 1 tablespoon Cashews chopped
- 1 tablespoon Pista chopped
- 1.5 tablespoon Chironji ,optional
- ½ teaspoon Rose water ( or 1 drop rose essence) optional
Take milk in a thick bottom pan and keep on a low flame and bring it gentle boil.
Keep on sim and stir once in awhile so that milk does not get burnt from the bottom .
Scrape the milk solids from the sides and stir the milk, keep milk on sim till it get reduced to 2-2.5 cups.
Once milk reduced to half the quantity, add sugar, saffron strands stir well.
Turn off heat and add chopped nuts ,cardamom powder and nutmeg powder.
Serve chilled in matka as a dessert or warm with poori's as a part to meal !
Calories: 260kcal