06/08/2020 18:26

How to Prepare Perfect Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert)

by Bertha Weber

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

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, basundi/rabdi (milk dessert). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 is a delicious dessert made by reducing milk and sugar to a thick consistency.

Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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. Take 1 litre milk
  2. Take 300 grams sweetened condensed milk
  3. Take 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
  4. Make ready 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. Make ready to taste sugar

Basundi is a easy-to-make milk sweet dish with a nice flavor of cardamom (elaichi/welchi) or kesar. Basundi is served with puri or served as a dessert at the end of meal. Rabdi is very thick with lots of malai / heavy cream. Basundi is a milk based dessert with simple ingredients like sugar and nuts.

Steps 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

Rabdi is very thick with lots of malai / heavy cream. 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. This is my FIL's favorite sweet.

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