Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 liter Whole milk
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• Cardamom powder to taste
• Dry fruits
Instruction :
• In a pan take milk and heat it on medium heat.
• When cream begins to gather, stir well.
• Mix the cream well with milk.
• Repeat this procedure until milk is reduced to half of its quantity.
• When milk reduces to half, add sugar and mix well.
• You can decide the quantity of sugar as per your taste.
• Cook for another 15 minutes.
• Turn off the gas and add cardamom powder.
• Mix well and basundi is already.
• Though basundi looks a bit thin when hot, it will thicken up as it
cools down.
• You can garnish basundi with dry fruits or saffron too as per your
taste.
• You can serve basundi hot or cold too.
• Basundi goes well with poori.
Tips:
• Try to use wide and broad vessel for boiling milk. This will help in
quick evaporation of milk and also it won’t spill out.
• Shortcut method for making Basundi
1. You can add bread crumbs so that milk will thicken up
quickly.
2. Roast khoya well and add it in boiling milk. Add sugar and boil
again. Quick basundi is already. 125 gm khoya is enough for
1/2 liter milk.
3. You can add milk powder too. 1 cup milk powder in enough
for 1/2 liter milk. If you use milk powder and condensed milk
together, milk will thicken up more quickly.
• Reduce milk on medium heat only. If you boil milk on high heat,
there is possibility of spilling the milk out of vessel.
• If you use deep vessel, lots of steam is gathered and possibility of
milk spilling out of vessel increases. So try to use broad vessel.
• Keep a spoon across the vessel. This will help in escaping the
vapor from the sides of the spoon and possibility of spilling the
milk out of vessel will be reduced.