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Basundi Recipe | How to make Basundi sweet

November 29, 2018 By Raji Leave a Comment

Basundi is rich and creamy , delicious milk based sweet. Though the traditional way of preparing basundi is time consuming, it is worth every minute:) Basundi is prepared by boiling and reducing the milk to ½ the original quantity, and some sugar, saffron and nuts. You can serve basundi warm or chilled with nuts and dried fruits .
This milk dessert is served with poori as well.

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Basundi recipe with video and step by step pictures.

Ingredients

  • 4 cups or 1 liter of full fat milk / whole milk cow's milk
  • 3 tbsp sugar or more
  • 10 to 15 strands of saffron soaked in milk
  • 2 cardamoms powdered
  • 10 to 12 raw pista crushed
  • 7 to 8 almonds crushed
  • 5 to 6 cashews crushed
Basundi Recipe
Tools
4 cup pyrex prepware, Mortar and Pestle, Oneida 10pc Stainless Steel Induction Ready Dishwasher Safe Cookware Set, Stainless steel utensils, Thick bottom sauce pan

Instructions

  1. boil the milk in big thick bottom pan on medium high heat . keep stirring
  2. once the milk forms the cream on top, keep mixing scraping the sides as well Basundi 2
  3. After 20 minutes on medium high heat, quantity of milk is reduced by 1/4 th, now add crushed cashews, little pista, and little almond pieces, basundi 3
  4. Add sugar
  5. Add soaked saffron milk Mix it well. Let it boil until the quantity reduced to half the original quantity (4 cups to 2 cups)
  6. Once it is reduced to ½ and the consistency should be as shown. It takes around 45 minutes on medium high heat.
  7. now turn off the heat and add cardamom powder. Mix it
  8. You can serve Basundi wither chilled or warm. Both tastes amazing.
  9. Before serving add remaining pista pieces and almond pieces on top and serve.

Notes

  • If you want more sweetness add more sugar even after it is done and boil it for a minute
  •  try this Basundi with Poori
Basundi Recipe

Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: gluten free sweet, No Onion No Garlic, north Indian sweet, Popular gujarathi sweet, vegetarian recipes

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Measurement Conversions

1 cup - 240mL (Volume)

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