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

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

Basundi is a Indian dessert made with milk, sugar, nuts, saffron and cardamom powder. It is similar to rabri but slightly thinner in consistency. Basundi Recipe - Easy Gujarati / Maharashtrian Dessert for Raksha Bandhan - CookingShooking.

Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Basundi/Rabdi (Milk dessert) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin 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 it.

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

Both differ in the texture and consistency. Traditionally basundi is made by simmering full fat milk for a long time until the milk reduces to almost half the original quantity. Then it is sweetened with sugar and flavored with. Rabdi is reduced milk with sugar and flavours.

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

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. Basundi should not be too thick.

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