Recipe- Delicious Kesar Pista Kulfi

Kulfi is an Indian dessert made by boiling milk till it thickens and then adding sugar and other flavors to it. The most common ingredients added to the kulfi are saffron, cardamom, pistachios, almonds, rose water etc. The dessert comes in many flavors and these days we even get chocolate and paan kulfi!

Ingredients

Whole Milk: 2 liter (around 9-10 cups)
Heavy cream: 1 cup
Sugar: 3/4th cup (more or less depending on taste)
Cardamom Powder: 1 tsp
Corn Starch: 4-5 tsp, dissolved in 2 tbsp of water
Rose Water: 1 tbsp
Pistachio/Pista: 2/3 cup, chopped
Saffron/Kesar: a pinch dissolved in 1 tbsp of milk

Method

* Soak saffron stands in 1 tbsp of milk, set aside.

* Dissolve the corn starch with water and set aside. Make sure there are no lumps.

* Put the milk to boil in a heavy bottom pan. Once it comes to a boil, lower the flame and let the milk thicken. This will take more than an hour.

* After 35 minutes or so, add the corn starch, saffron and sugar. Stir the corn starch mixture before adding to the milk else it might get stuck at the bottom of the bowl.

* Add the cream and continue to stir the milk regularly.

* Now add the pistachios and mix well. The milk should continue to simmer at low heat.

* After almost 1.5 hours the milk should reach its desired thickness. Its very important for the milk to get really thick else the kulfi will have ice crystals when you freeze it.

* Add cardamom powder, rose water and switch off the flame.

* Check the consistency of the milk in the picture on the extreme right. It should be that thick.