Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, basundi/rabdi (milk dessert). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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.

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

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

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

It is therefore very rich, creamy, sweet and can be processed to have different textures as the chef decides. Basundi is also reduced high fat milk, boiled with sugar and some almond+cardamom flavouring. But is reduced only to about half. Basundi is a milk based dessert with simple ingredients like sugar and nuts.

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 should not be too thick. Served chilled and can also be served warm with Puri. This is my FIL's favorite sweet. 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.

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