Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert)
Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert)

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, basundi/rabdi (milk dessert). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Basundi is a very tasty Indian dessert recipe prepared with milk, Usually in Maharashtra it is served with soft puri in marriage or other functions. Enjoy this milk dessert, this festival season. Indian desserts popularly have a name for being decadently sweet, deliciously spiced and overall time-consuming.

Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook basundi/rabdi (milk dessert) using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert):
  1. Get 1 litre milk
  2. Take 300 grams sweetened condensed milk
  3. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
  4. Prepare 1/2 cup cashews cut in to small pieces
  5. Take 1/2 cup almonds cut in to small pieces
  6. Take 1/2 cup pistachios cut in to small pieces
  7. Take 4-5 saffron strands, soaked in lukewarm milk for 10-15 minutes
  8. Make ready to taste sugar

Basundi is a delicious dessert made by reducing milk and sugar to a thick consistency. This is chilled, garnished with nuts and served. Traditionally basundi is made by simmering full fat milk for a long time until the milk reduces to almost half the original quantity. Basundi is sweet thickened milk, flavored with cardamom and nutmeg, with the addition of dry fruits.

Instructions to make Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert):
  1. Add milk in a thick bottom pan, heat up and allow milk to boil in a low flame, stir the milk in between 3-4 minutes once
  2. Then add sweetened condensed milk in to the milk and mix together, taste the milk if required more sweet either you can add 50 grams of condensed milk or sugar
  3. Then milk starts to thicken, you will notice the milk solids in with creamy texture, keep on stirring the milk for 20-25 minutes
  4. Then add cut cashews,almonds and pistachios (save some nuts for garnishing too) to the Basundi and let it boil for another 5 more minutes and simmer to a minute and turn off the flame and then add soaked saffron strands to it mix together
  5. Basundi is ready to serve hot or chilled (as you like)
  6. If you like to serve chill then let the Basundi cools down completely, keep the Basundi in refrigerator for at least 30-45 minutes then serve chill

This milk based delicious dessert is popular in the western part of India, specially in the states maharashtra and Gujarat. The consistency is not thick like that of Rabri, but more fluid and flowing. Basundi is a milk based dessert with simple ingredients like sugar and nuts. Basundi should not be too thick. Served chilled and can also be served warm with Puri.

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