Easy kesar shrikhand recipe / Sweetened Yogurt with Saffron, cardamom & nuts is a rich, creamy popular Indian dessert. Serve them plain or with poori or chapathi.
Ingredients
½ Cup of Thick Hung curd or Greek Yogurt from 1 cup of curd
1.5 Tbsp of White Sugar, I used Turbinado Sugar
7-10 Saffrons
10 Almonds, Finely Chopped
3 Cashews, Powdered
Pinch of Cardamom Powder
½ Tbsp of Milk
Instructions
Take homemade curd (yogurt) or store bought curd. Always use fresh one, don't use sour curd.
Put the muslin or cheese cloth over the strainer. Add curd (yogurt) over muslin cloth and allow it to drain for 3 hrs. Place the bowl under the strainer to remove the whey. Use this whey to knead chapathi dough.
In a mixing bowl, add yogurt (curd), sugar, cardamom powder and powdered cashews. Mix well with whisk until it turns creamy and smooth.
Add saffron to the hot milk, leave it for 5 mins.
Add the saffron milk to the yogurt, mix well.
Finally garnish it with saffron and nuts of your choice like almonds, pistachios.
Refrigerate it for an hour before serving.
Creamy, yummy kesar shrikhand is ready to serve.
Notes
I used turbinado sugar. You can use powdered white sugar too. Adjust the amount of sugar as per to your taste. Add any nuts of your choice like pistachios or walnuts or almonds. If you have Greek yogurt, you can use it directly instead of using homemade hung yogurt. If you don't have saffron, you can skip it and make it plain shrikhand. Do not use sour curd while making shrikhand.
Recipe by FoodyBuddy at https://foodybuddy.net/2015/09/02/easy-kesar-shrikhand-recipe-sweetened-yogurt-with-saffron-nuts.html