BADAM KA KHEER

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Almond (Badam)
2 cups Milk
3 tblsp Sugar
5 crushed Cardamoms
a pinch of Saffron (Kesar), soaked in lukewarm milk

How to make Badam Kheer:

• Boil half a litre of water in a sauce pan . add the almonds when the water is boiling and cook for 2 minutes. remove from the flame and drain.
• Remove the skin of the almonds and grind to a fine paste.
• Boil the milk in a thick bottomed pan. When the milk begins to boil add the almond paste and the sugar and cook for 5 minutes over a low flame stirring continuously.
• Remove from the flame and add the dissolved saffron and the crushed cardamoms.
• Allow to cool and serve chilled.