Basundi Recipe, is a traditional milk based Indian sweet made using milk, nuts, cardamom, saffron and sugar. Milk is reduced with sugar and nuts till it thickens and gets a kheer like consistency. Basundi sweet is best when served cold for special occasions.
Basundi Recipe
I have been getting so many request to share this recipe in my blog. Basundi is nothing but reduced milk with lots of sugar and nuts in it. The flavour comes from nuts and condensed milk. It makes a rich dessert for any special occasion. Anyone can make this sweet, the one thing which you have to do is keep reducing the milk and keep stirring it often, so nothing burns in the bottom.
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About Basundi Sweet Recipe
Basundi is made with milk which is cooked for longer time with sugar and condensed milk till it thickens kheer like texture. This is a rich milk-based sweet. The main ingredient is milk, sugar, sweetened condensed milk, nuts and flavourings.
Basundi is very similar to rabdi. Both are made with milk, sugar and nuts. But Basundi sweet is creamier, thinner and smoother in consistency. Usually rabdi is less in sweet which is usually accompanied with other desserts like gulab jamun, rasgulla, shahi tukda.
Traditionally Basundi is made by reducing milk for hours till it thickens. It is constantly mixed to get the creamy texture. Finally finely chopped nuts, saffron and ground cardamom is added.
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Basundi Sweet Ingredients
Full Fat Milk - Use full fat milk with higher cream content for richness. Higher cream and fat content milk will give thicker creamier basundi.
Sweetened Condensed Milk - sugar and milkmaid provides creamy, flowy and smooth basundi.
Flavourings - saffron, cardamom, nutmeg are essential flavourings you can add in basundi. You can add a dash of rose water & kewra water for floral aroma.
Nuts - I add finely chopped cashews, badam and pistachios.
Basundi Preparation (3 Easy Steps)
Reducing Milk
Take milk, sugar, condensed milk in a big pan and heat it up. Bring it to a boil, simmer the pan and cook on medium heat, keep mixing till it thickens. Fold in the milk solids into the milk mix and cook till reduced in half.
Flavouring Baundi
Take it off the heat and add cardamom, saffron, nuts.
Serving
Pour into a bowl and chill in fridge. Serve cold.
Expert Tips
- Use full fat milk for this process. Keep mixing when reducing the milk.
- Sweetened condensed milk adds richness and creamy smooth texture.
- Any finely chopped nuts can be added in the basundi.
- Rose extract, saffron and nutmeg can be used as flavourings.
Storage & Serving
- Basundi can be stored in fridge for upto a week.
- Serve basundi warm or cold.
How to Make Basundi (Stepwise Pictures)
1)Take milk in a sauce pan. Use full fat cream milk for best taste.
2)Add in sugar to taste.
3)Add in sweetened condensed milk. Condensed milk adds thickness, creaminess and taste to the dish.
4)Heat milk in a sauce pan. Bring it to a boil and cook till it reduced in half.
5)keep mixing so the milk reduce faster and it thickens faster. Make sure it doesn't burn in the bottom.
6)The milk solids will form on top of the milk. Scrape and fold that into the milk mix. This adds richness and thickness to the basundi.
7)These are the milk solids which is essential for basundi.
8)Mix well till the milk solids thickens.
9)Now the mixture has reduced half way through.
10)Add in a pinch of ground cardamom for flavour. You can add rose extract, saffron.
11)Add in finely chopped nuts like cashews, almonds, pistachios.
12)Add in a pinch of saffron.
13)Mix well. Now basundi is ready to serve.
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Ingredients
- 1½ litre Full Fat Milk
- 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk (400 ml)
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- ½ tsp Ground Cardamom
- ¼ cup Almonds chopped finely
- ¼ cup Cashews chopped finely
- ¼ cup Pistachios chopped finely
- a pinch Saffron
Instructions
- Take milk, sugar, condensed milk in a big pan and heat it up. Bring it to a boil, simmer the pan and cook on medium heat, keep stiring.
- Milk solids will form in the top. fold that into the milk mix. Keep cooking till it gets thick and reduced in half.
- Take it off the heat and add all the other ingredients. mix well.
- Pour into a bowl and chill in fridge for few hours. Serve cold.
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Notes
- Use full fat milk for this process. Keep mixing when reducing the milk.
- Any finely chopped nuts can be added in the basundi.
- Rose extract, saffron and nutmeg can be used as flavourings
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shiga s
Wow... yummy one.... my fav sweet ll try it today itself
Surya
Good receipe with pictorial. Can this be done without condensed milk?
Aarthi
@SuryaU can skip condensed milk, but add more sugar
Anonymous
I tried it and it was tummylicious 😉
Love your recipes.
Purnima Selvamurugan
I am in your blog most of the time nowadays.. All pictures wrt each cooking is fantabulous.
Btw, one doubt wrt measurement. One cup of condensed milk which you used means 200 ml ?
Aarthi
@Purnima Selvamuruganmy 1 cup measures 240 ml
Magees kitchen
Drooling....
chitra
I tried it.....it was yummy
Anonymous
I tried this.. my son loved it. Thanx a lot for this wonderful recipe.
Anonymous
Reduce the milk to half the quantity?
Aarthi
@Anonymousyou have to keep boiling and cooking the milk for quite some time. This makes it reduce and get thick
Anonymous
Hi, do we need to use sweet condensed milk or normal one. i think these 2 are available in market
Aarthi
@Anonymousit is sweetened condensed milk
Anonymous
Thanks aarthi for this wonderful recipe. I hav tried ur many recipes and those item was too much tasty. I loved to cook for my family. I want to know 1 thing that can i use powder milk to make basundi? If yes then how much i need?
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes, just mix 1 cup of powdered milk will 1 cup of water and heat it till it thick, follow the process
Anonymous
Looks so tempting . I tried. Your description is very easy for beginners itself. I tried eggless zebra cake . Output is perfect. Thank u so much.
Sai Gargeyi Kondepi
Hi Aarthi. I love all your veggie recipes. Tried a bunch of them and they turned out good. What's Thad measurement of sugar to use if we replace condensed milk? I tried this recipe with condensed milk and turned out excellent. Now I wan to try with sugar
Anonymous
Please tell what is podi? And what could be used as replacement for safran
Anonymous
How long v can keep dis duratiom.
divya prasanna
I tried it and its cames too tasty...love da recipe and am big fan of yours cooking mam....
Pearl Anand
Is saffron too necessary for this dish
Nita
I tried this yesterday and came out yummy. Easy to make and so tasty. Thanks for sharing the recipe,
swarna
looks very yummy how many cups is 1 liter
Sujata
My basundi has becomes rabdi. How can I turn it to basundi. Please help
Stumbit
Rich creamy dessert of India. Is that ok to do without condensed milk .Because i think it may add up too much sweetness to basundhi.
Aarthi
yes ofcourse you can skip sweetened condensed milk. You can adjust the sugar level according to your taste. Also remember if you skip condensed milk you might need to reduce the milk even further.