Badam Kheer

Ingredients:

1 cup Almond/Badami/Badam

1 -2 cup Sugar

6 cups Milk

Pinch of Safron/Kesari/Kesar

5-6 flakes of Cardamom/Elakki/Elachi

Recipe:

Add almonds in a vessel containing hot water and keep it aside for about 3-4 mins. Remove the outer skin of almonds.

Take 3/4 cup of hot milk in a bowl, add pinch of safron and keep it aside.

Put 5-6 cups of milk in an another vessel and bring it to boil. Keep it in low flame and stir it continuously.

Grind almonds along with safron milk into smooth paste. Add this ground mixture and sugar to the vessel containg milk. Keep stirring this mixture for about 10-15 minutes in low flame. Add smashed cardamom and stir it. Keep it aside for about one hour till it comes to room temperature. Filter this to get rid of almond ingredients. Refrigerate for about 5-6 hrs.