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Kulfi (Indian Ice Cream)

Kulfi (Indian Ice cream)
Kesar Kulfi with pistachio 
Tips:

Use pan with large surface are to boil milk. it will help to boil milk faster due to evaporation.

While boiling/heating milk put a big spoon or ladle inside the milk. It will prevent milk from boiling over.

About Kulfi:

Kulfi is Indian version of ice cream that contains delicate spicy flavors of spices suchy as cardamom, saffron, cinnamon. Tradtionally, Kulfi is not whipped during freezing resulting in somewhat of solid dessert similar to frozen custards. 

 Ingredients

3 cups half and half (half milk and half cream)
9 cardamom pods
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup chopped/sliced almond and pistachio
few strands of Saffron (Kesar)

Garnish
flakes of almond and pistachio

 Preparation
1

Add cardamom to milk and bring it to boil.

2

Reduce the heat and keep simmering the milk until it is reduced by one-third.

3

Take cardamom out of milk by using strainer.

4

Add almond and sugar.

5

Pour the mixture into container with lid.

6

Freeze until firm. Stir the mixture every 30 minutes.

7 Remove from freezer 10 minutes before serving.
8 Serve by taking out of the container. Garnish with almond and cardamom seed as desired.
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Use less sugar than you normally want in dessert to cut down on calories. You can also use sugar substitute splenda but it may give you a slightly different taste.