Basundi - A Maharastrian dessert!

                      A creamy milk topped with saffron 😍

This creamy milk recipe with some delicious nutritional nuts and a pinch of full flavored saffron at the last will make your taste buds sweet and eager for more and absolutely for sweet lovers but not for diabetic ones!

Preparation time 10 minutes     Cooking time 30 mins    Serves 4

Ingredients:

1 lt milk

1 cup condensed milk

1 cup sugar

2 tbsp custard powder ( optional )

2 tbsp cashew powder

1/2  cup chopped cashew

1/2 cup chopped almonds ( badam )

1/2 cup chopped pistachios

pinch of cardamom powder

pinch of saffron ( for coloring and flavour )

Preparation :

1  Boil the milk in the pot . Bring it to boil in simmer flame. Add condensed milk and stir it so that milk don't stick to the bottom of the pot.

2  Now its time to add sugar after 10 mins of adding condensed milk and stir it completely to dissolve in the milk. 

3 Once the sugar completely dissolves add cashew powder which makes the basundi thick and  rich in taste then add custard powder and its optional ( but i like to add powder which gives more intense sweet taste) 

4 Then include rest of the ingredients cashew , almonds , pista and bring it boil in simmer flame and stir continuesly to avoid the formation of any lumps in the milk.

5  Now adding saffron to the basundi will give it a nice aroma and a light yellowish to the basundi and brings a authentic rich sweetness to the recipe.

6  At the end sprinkle pinch of cardamom powder to give additional aroma and to bring back its traditional flavour.

Note :

1 The important thing is stirring the milk continuesly in low flame to avoid lumps which usually happens.

2 The sweetness of recipe is much more important than adding those ingredients. So measure carefully sugar quantity.

3 You can add sweet raisins and honey for additional flavours

Health points :

Almonds , cashew , pistachious are naturally having more nutritional benefits which overall good for health.

A complete sweet recipe with a goodness of bit healthy nuts!