Friday, February 15, 2008

Dryfruit basandi


Its valentines day special recipe which we got it from funnfud blog and it really came out very well...we will definitely try this recipe again when our friends are around...

Ingredients
No of persons - 2
  1. Whole milk - 4 cups(Or 1/4 gallon)
  2. Condensed milk - 100 g(1 cup)
  3. Sugar - 1 cup(Or to taste)
  4. Dry fruit powder - 1/2 cup(Pista, almond, Cashews)
  5. Saffron - 1/2 tsp
  6. Milk to dissolve saffron - 1 tsp
  7. Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
  8. Garnish - Pista, Cashew (chopped)
Method
  1. Pour milk in a large pan and bring it to boil
  2. Stir the milk continously so that it would not stick to the sides of the pan
  3. When the milk starts boiling, add the condensed milk slowly and stir it well.
  4. Add sugar and dry fruits powder and stir the mixture well.
  5. Heat it medium flame for about 30-40 mts with stirring now and then.
  6. In the meantime, heat 1 tsp of milk in microwave and dissolve saffrons.
  7. Add the saffron to the boiling milk and stir the mixture well to spread the saffron yellow color.
  8. Now add some cardamom powder,boil it for 2-3 mts and remove it from the flame.
  9. Add some chopped nuts for garnishing.
  10. Keep it to cool for sometime and then refrigerate..
Yummy basandi is ready to serve



1 comment:

My Scrawls said...

Hi Ajitha,

Am Anu, living in Chicago. I blog at http://www.myscrawls.com Nice to meet another blogger from Chicago! :)

Thanks for the simple yet awesome recipe! I tried it and was really very nice.

I have posted the recipe in my blog - http://www.myscrawls.com/anu-kitchen/basandi

Do visit my blog when u get time. Will be happy to receive your comments.

Anu Ganesh