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Gujarat · Dessert

Rabri

Traditional Recipe 10: Rabri recipe

🧺 Ingredients

• Whole milk: 1.5 liters
• Sugar: 100g
• Cardamom pods: 5 (cracked)
• Saffron strands: 12-15
• Nutmeg powder: ⅛ tsp (0.5g)
• Almonds: 20g (blanched, sliced)
• Pistachios: 10g (sliced)
• Khoya (milk solids): 50g (optional, crumbled)

👩‍🍳 How to make Rabri

1. Pour milk (1.5 liters) into wide, heavy-bottomed pan.
2. Bring to boil on high heat (190°C).
3. Add cracked cardamom pods.
4. Reduce heat to low-medium (130°C); let milk simmer slowly 45-50 min.
5. Stir occasionally, scraping cream that forms on surface and folding it back in.
6. Milk should reduce to about 600ml (to ⅖ original volume) and become thick, creamy.
7. When thick and reduced, add sugar (100g); stir well.
8. Soak saffron in 2 tbsp warm milk; add to rabri.
9. Add nutmeg powder; stir well.
10. If using khoya, crumble and stir in.
11. Cook on low heat (120°C) for 2 min more.
12. Serve warm, garnished with almonds and pistachios.
13. Should be creamy, thick, milk-brown color.

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