Simple Way to Make Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert)

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, basundi/rabdi (milk dessert). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Enjoy this milk dessert, this festival season. Indian desserts popularly have a name for being decadently sweet, deliciously spiced and overall time-consuming. It is that part of being slow and cooking that bring about the flavours and the aroma characteristic to it.

Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Steps to Prepare Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert)

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

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert):

1. Get 1 litre milk
2. Get 300 grams sweetened condensed milk
3. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
4. Take 1/2 cup cashews cut in to small pieces
5. Get 1/2 cup almonds cut in to small pieces
6. Get 1/2 cup pistachios cut in to small pieces
7. Take 4-5 saffron strands, soaked in lukewarm milk for 10-15 minutes
8. Get to taste sugar

Basundi is an Indian dessert made by thickening full fat milk and flavouring it with saffron, cardamom with the addition of dry fruits. The consistency is more fluid and flowing not thick like Rabri. Rabdi is reduced milk with sugar and flavours. It is therefore very rich, creamy, sweet and can be processed to have different textures as the chef decides.

Instructions

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

Basundi is also reduced high fat milk, boiled with sugar and some almond+cardamom flavouring. But is reduced only to about half. Basundi is sweet thickened milk, flavored with cardamom and nutmeg, with the addition of dry fruits. 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. milk based desserts are a very popular recipe in india. but the milk basundi is hugely popular in gujarat, maharashtra and karnataka where it is finally, i request you to check my other indian dessert recipes collection with this recipe post of milk basundi sweet. it includes recipes like fruit custard.

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