A blissful delight to treat all fathers. Happy Father’s day!
Basundhi
Course: DessertCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Easy6-8
servings1
hour15
minutesBasundhi is a milk dessert prepared by boiling milk and reducing to half its quantity. Adding sugar, cardamom powder, saffron enhances the taste and forms into an appetizing dessert. Some varieties of fruit pulp can be added or simply top it up on cut fruits like mango, pineapple or any fruit of your choice.
I recollect my childhood memories when my mother used to make this extravagant dessert on weekends which we used to long for. My mother’s preparation taste still lingers in my mouth. Hoping to replicate the same tingling to your taste buds. Enjoy!
Ingredients
Milk – 6 cups
Evaporated milk 12 oz. can – 3
Sugar – ¾ cup.
Cardamom powder – 2 tsps.
Saffron – few strands
Nuts – for garnish slivered almonds, pistachios, cashews – ½ cup
Ghee – 2 tsps.
Directions
- Apply ghee to the inner pot of Instant Pot. Grease the bottom and on the sides, as high as possible. This will help prevent any milk sticking to the bottom.
- Turn on Instant Pot to sauté mode (normal) setting.
- Add milk and set the time to 25 minutes. Let it boil. Keep stirring continuously to avoid any milk catching to the bottom of the pot.
- Once the milk is hot, take a ladle full of hot milk and add to saffron strands in a bowl to soak it.
- Once it reduces in quantity to half, add sugar. Mix well. This will take another 20 minutes.
- Now add evaporated milk, cardamom powder, few strands of saffron, mix well. Bring the mixture to a rolling boil, stirring constantly to avoid any milk catching to the bottom of the pot.
- Continue boiling and stirring for another 30 minutes. Until you see a desired consistency. The milk mixture should reach a thick dropping consistency.
- Transfer to a bowl and cool it down.
- Garnish with some nuts. Basundhi can be served warm or cold. Enjoy!!
Notes
- When making basundhi on a stove top, use a heavy wide bottom pot. Make sure the size of the pot is thrice in size bigger, to avoid any spills.
- Adjust the sweetness as per taste, you can always add more sugar.
- Basundhi thickens when you refrigerate.
