Sunday, March 23, 2014

Dry fruits Kalakand



Ingredients :

Milk : 2 ltrs
Lemon Juice : 2 tbsp.
Sugar : 4 - 5 tbsp.
Milkmaid : 3 tbsp.
Cardamom powder : 3 pinch
Ghee : 2 tsp.
Pistachio : few
Badam : few
Cashew : few.

Procedure :

Add 1 ltr of milk in a vessel and once this reaches the boiling consistency just keep the flame in low add milkmaid and Sugar, allow the milk to reduce into 1 to 1.
Meanwhile boil the remaining 1 ltr of milk in a vessel and once when it comes to boil, add the lemon juice to this. Dilute the lemon juice with 1 tsp of water.
Now you can see the water start separating.
switch off the flame to avoid over coking and drain with a clean muslin cloth.
Wash this nicely in running tap water. This step is to get rid of the sour taste of the lemon in the paneer.
Chop and fry the dry fruits in ghee and keep it aside.
Add this Paneer to the boiling milk and mix well, keep the flame low.
Add cardamom powder and dry fruits to this and mix well.
Saute this nicely without getting burnt, till the moisture leaves and this become a whole mass.
Grease a plate with ghee and keep aside.
Once the milk + paneer combo comes into a mass transfer this to the plate greased with ghee.
Keep this in the refrigerator for half an hour.
After that, cut them into squares.