Ingredients (240 ml cup used)
- badam or almonds 20 to 24
- Milk 500 ml (optional- can add water to fresh milk to make 500 ml)
- Sugar 2 tsp. (optional- babies need no sugar)
- Saffron few strands (optional) (The picture you see above is with very little saffron, you can even skip it)
- Green cardamom powder ⅛ th tsp.
Instructions
- Wash and soak almonds for at least 6 hours. Peel the skin.
- crush saffron with the help of your fingers. Refrigerated saffron easily gets crushed and blends well with the milk.
- Bring 2 cups of water or milk to a boil, add saffron, sugar and cardamom powder.
- While the milk boils, blend the almonds with little water to a smooth paste. you can as well blend sugar saffron cardamom and almonds to a smooth paste.
- Add this to the boiling milk.
- Simmer for 2 minutes. off the heat.
- Let the temperature come down to warm before you serve. If you are serving it to a little kid, you may need to filter to remove the coarse granules. This is optional and depends on your blender.
