Kalakhand Recipe | Instant Kalakhand recipe
Kalakhand is one of the most popular sweet recipe made with milk and sugar.
Servings 16
Ingredients
- Milk ½ liter
- Milk powder ¾ cup optional
- Sugar ½ cup
- Nuts as required optional
- Saffron few strands optional
To make paneer
- Milk 1 liter
- Curd ½ cup heaped
Instructions
To make paneer
- Boil milk in a pan
- Once it boils add the curd to it and allow it to curdle.
- Boil till it completely curdled and whey is separated from milk
- Drain in a cloth and allow it to dip to remove excess water.
- Crumble and keep the paneer ready
Making Kalakhand
- Take milk and milk powder in a pan.
- Mix milk and milk powder without lumps and start boiling.
- Low it to boil till it reduces to half
- Now add the crumbled paneer to it.
- Then add sugar to it.
- Finally add cardamom powder to it
- Keep stirring continuously.
- Mixture will start to become thick.
- Keep stirring till it comes together and most of the water content is evaporated. It should be little moist not too dry.
- Grease the pan with ghee.
- Transfer the mixture to the pan and level them.
- Garnish with lot of nuts and saffron.
- Allow it to rest for 2-3 hours and then cut them as pieces.
- Store in airtight container in fridge. It keeps well for 3-4 days.
Notes
I used milk powder to reduce the cooking time a bit.
If you don't have milk powder, use ½ liter more milk and stir continuously till it thickens.
You can use store bought paneer of 200 grams for this recipe
I used badam, pista and cashews for garnishing on the top.
Adjust the sugar according to your preference.