बासुंदी | Basundi

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.