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Basundi-Creamy Milk Pudding

By shriya on Nov 11, 2008 in Best of ST, Featured, Sweets & Desserts |  Print This

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Basundhi is one of my and my Husband’s favorite sweets. We love  Adayar Anadha Bhavan’s Basundhi to the core. It used to be my favorite place to eat basundhi in Chennai. But luckily, after marriage I came to know that its my husband’s favorite too. But after moving to U.S we really missed it.  My elder sister used to make great basundhi, So I decided to make this at home and surprised my husband. You know what, it actually became  a sooper dooper hit and he loved it very much. A big thanks to my sister for sharing this recipe with me.

Ingredients:

• Milk : 2 litres (I used 2% Milk)
• Condensed Milk: 1 can
• Pistachios : 4 tbsp
• cardamom : 1 1/2tbsp (Preseed)
• Sugar : 1/2 cup

Method Of Preparation:

1. Boil the milk in a thick  wide bottomed vessel.
2. Heat the milk in low flame ( If you are using an electric stove, the milk would easily stick to the bottom of vessel, so boil it in low flame) by stirring it continuosly. After some time let’s say the milk is reduced to 25% add the condensed milk and sugar.
3. After some time you will see thick layers of cream forming on top.  
4. Collect some of the cream layers and put it in a bowl separately.
5. Keep stirring the milk by pushing the layers to the side. 
6. When the milk is reduced to 50 to 60% add the cardamoms and the collected cream layers and mix them gently ( Don’t break the cream layers).
7. Finally garnish it with pistachios and a little saffron on top. 
8. Serve it chilled

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10 Responses to “Basundi-Creamy Milk Pudding”

1. 

   anudivya November 12th, 2008, 2:23 am

   That looks awesome… It does take a long time for the milk to boil down doesn’t it? Especially skim milk…
2. 

   jayasree November 12th, 2008, 3:49 am

   I love basundhi too. Its definitely worth the long time of stirring. Looks very delectable.
3. 

   Dibs November 12th, 2008, 6:41 am

   I love basundi too. I remember the hotels I had it at Bangalore added some sort of soaked seeds to basundi. They had a nice flavour, and provided some texture to the basundi as well..not sure what that is!

   What you have made looks excellent!
4. 

   Bhawana November 12th, 2008, 9:27 am

   looing delicious :). I never had this so far. But by ingredients sounds like kheer.
5. 

   Aartee November 12th, 2008, 12:31 pm

   it sounds a lot like kheer and seems easy to make too.. will make it someday, and i tried ur bakhlawa and it turned out really well.. thanks for the wonderful recipe
6. 

   karuna November 12th, 2008, 2:34 pm

   tht sure looks good with all the dry fruit. nice recipe
7. 

   Purva November 12th, 2008, 4:25 pm

   First time to this lovely blog through Blog catalogue…
   Basundi has always been my fav dessert…
   Urs look perfect and rich and irresistible…
8. 

   Cynthia November 19th, 2008, 8:22 am

   Oh I love the idea of this, especially all that bit of cream that is skimmed off and then added back. Yum!
9. 

   ujwal January 7th, 2009, 9:08 am

   Looks yummy..Going to make it soon
10. 

    Flory February 27th, 2009, 1:48 am

    Hi, im new to this blog, and read thru some of your recipes. They all look great and am sure they taste great too!
    Will definitely start trying it all one by one.
    Keep up your good work

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