Ingredients:

• 25 Almonds (badam)
• 1 liter Milk
• 1/2 cup – water
• 1/2 cup – Sugar
• 1/4 tsp – Cardamom powder
• 10-15 strands saffron, crushed, soaked in 1 tsp warm Milk
• 1 tsp – rose water
• 5 Pistachios crushed coarsely

Method:

1. Soak almonds for 30 mins in hot water
2. Peel the skin of almonds
3. Grind the almonds into paste with 1/2 cup of water
4. Bring the milk to boil in a heavy pan
5. Add the almond paste
6. Keep stirring occasionally till semi-solid
7. Add sugar, cardamom powder, rose water and saffron
8. Cook for 2 minutes
9. Garnish with pistachios
10. Serve chilled or hot

Recipe courtesy of Sify Bawarchi