Ingredients

• 25 almonds (badam)
• 1 liter milk
• 1/2 cup - water
• 1/2 cup - sugar
• 1/4 tsp - cardamom powder
• 10-15 strands saffron, crushed, soaked in 1 tsp warm milk
• 1 tsp - rose water
• 5 pistachios crushed coarsely

How to Make Badam sweet

• Soak almonds for 30 mins in hot water
• Peel the skin of almonds
• Grind the almonds into paste with 1/2 cup of water
• Bring the milk to boil in a heavy pan
• Add the almond paste
• Keep stirring occasionally till semi-solid
• Add sugar, cardamom powder, rose water and saffron
• Cook for 2 minutes
• Garnish with pistachios
• Serve chilled or hot