1. Milk
Cake
Healthy recipes: Milk cake is a very popular dessert in
India. It is available in most sweet shops around the
country, as well as in neighboring Pakistan, Nepal and
Bangladesh. This is a simple recipe that includes full cream
milk, tartaric powder, fresh lemon juice, white sugar, and
corn flour. The milk cake is flavored with saffron and finely
chopped dried fruits. You can also garnish the milk cake
with chopped nuts like pistachios, almonds, or cashews.
Sweet, soft and milk, milk cake has a touch or sourness.
Some like to add cardamom to give it aroma, color and
flavor. Serve this well with other healthy meals.
Ingredients:
1 liter full cream milk
½ cup full cream milk to pour in the end
1/2 tsp tartaric powder
2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
100 gm white sugar
1 tablespoon corn flour
10-12 threads of saffron soaked in little water
1 tablespoon finely chopped dry fruits
Directions:
In a thick bottom pan, boil milk and tartaric
powder with lemon juice. Allow milk to curdle and
reduce it to half. Keep stirring to avoid sticking to
the base.
It should become thick and later throw in some
corn flour, milk and saffron soaked in little water.
Give it a good stir. Allow thickening before turning
off the heat.
Transfer the mixture on to a flat tray and cut into
diamond shape.
Garnish it with finely chopped dry fruits and serve.
Store in an airtight container.
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