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Kesar Rabri

Cooking Method
Cuisine
Difficulty Beginner
Time
Cook Time: 2 hour Rest Time: 1 hour Total Time: 3 hrs
Servings 2
Best Season Suitable throughout the year
Description

Rabdi or Kesar Rabdi - A very famous and delicious dessert recipe from Indian Cuisine. Rabdi / Kesari Rabdi also known as Lachchedar Rabdi is thickened milk dessert flavored with Rose water/Kewra water and saffron.

Ingredients
  • 4 cups Whole milk
  • 2 Tbsp. Sugar/powdered sugar
  • 8-10 strands Saffron (Soaked in 2 Tbsp. of milk)
  • 1 drop Yellow jell food color (optional)
  • 1 Tsp. Kewra water Or Rose water
  • 3-4 Pistachio blanched, peeled & sliced (For garnishing)
  • 3-4 Almonds blanched, peeled & sliced (For garnishing)
Instructions
  1. In a wide heavy bottom pan/kadhai, add milk and bring it to boil.

  2. When milk starts boiling, lower the flame and continue to simmer it on low flame, string occasionally.

  3. A layer of malai (cream) will start forming on the top of the milk. Keep collecting the layer of malai on the sides of the pan.

  4. Also keep scraping the layer of dried milk from the sides and add them back to the milk. 

  5. Keep shimmering, stirring, collecting the cream and scraping till the milk reduced to 1/3 and thickened.

  6. String of milk in intervals helps to avoid the burning and getting browned from the bottom.

  7. Once milk is thickened to desired consistency add in sugar, soaked saffron, food color and stir well until sugar dissolves.

  8. Switch off the flame and add kewra or rose water.

  9. Garnish with saffron strand, sliced almonds and pistachios

  10. Serve warm or refrigerate for few hours before serving. You can serve Rabri with Malpua or can make Ras Malai.

Keywords: Delicious, Homemade, From the scratch
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