Basundi Recipe

Published: Nov 14, 2023 | Last Updated On: Nov 14, 2023 by Aarthi

Basundi Recipe, is a conventional 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 even have been getting so many request to share this recipe in my blog. Basundi is nothing but reduced milk with plenty of sugar and nuts in it. The flavour comes from nuts and condensed milk. It makes a wealthy dessert for any big day. Anyone could make this sweet, the one thing which you have got to do is keep reducing the milk and keep stirring it often, so nothing burns in the underside.

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. It is a wealthy milk-based sweet. The primary ingredient is milk, sugar, sweetened condensed milk, nuts and flavourings.

Basundi could be very much like rabdi. Each are made with milk, sugar and nuts. But Basundi sweet is creamier, thinner and smoother in consistency. Often rabdi is less in sweet which is often accompanied with other desserts like gulab jamun, rasgulla, shahi tukda.

Traditionally Basundi is made by reducing milk for hours till it thickens. It’s always 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 possibly can add in basundi. You possibly can add a splash 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 giant pan and warmth it up. Bring it to a boil, simmer the pan and cook on medium heat, keep mixing till it thickens. Fold within the milk solids into the milk mix and cook till reduced in half.

Flavouring Baundi

Take it off the warmth and add cardamom, saffron, nuts.

Serving

Pour right into a bowl and chill in fridge. Serve cold.

Expert Suggestions

• 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 could be added within the basundi.
• Rose extract, saffron and nutmeg could be used as flavourings.

Storage & Serving

• Basundi could be stored in fridge for upto every week.
• Serve basundi warm or cold.

Methods 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. Be sure that it doesn’t burn in the underside.

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 important 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 possibly 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 able to serve.

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