Badam kheer

  Badam drink is a favourite for most in south    next to Rose milk, most of the restaurants serve this,either hot or cold. This was a on my bloglist for many days, finally I made it last week for Tamil New year.
Hope you will enjoy the recipe
                       

Ingredients:
 2 cups of badam/almond
 1 cup of  brownsugar
 1/4 carrot
 pinch of saffron strands
 2-3 cardamon
 1 litre milk
 1 tbsp of chopped pistachios


Method:

• Soak almonds in a cup of water for an hour.
• Soak saffron in 2 tbsp of milk
• Boil one  litre  milk and reduce it to 3/4 litres. 
• Peel the almonds skin, and grind the almonds , cardamon  to fine paste.
• Chop the carrot and cook them in water or milk and puree them.
• Add pureed carrot to the milk and stir it in low flame for a  two minutes  .
• Now add the almond puree and  soaked saffron milk discarding saffron strands.
• Cook  stirring it well, in low flame without bottom   getting burnt.
• Tip in sugar and stir well, till it dissolves and switch off(in low flame).
• Now its ready to serve, garnish with chopped pistachios.