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Sunday, 23 November 2014

Easy To Make Indian Sweets Aam Shrikhand Recipe

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Shrikhand is a very popular Indian dessert made from strained yogurt. It is one of the main desserts in Maharashtrian and Gujarati cuisine. In Gujarati cuisine, shrikhand is eaten either as a side-dish with breads such as poori or as a dessert. It is commonly served as part of a vegetarian thali in Gujarati restaurants and is popular as part of wedding feasts.(source-Wiki) A popular variation of shrikhand in Maharashtra is Amrakhand which is shrikhand blended with mango pulp. This exotic dessert is very simple to prepare and is also one of my favorite dessert.Today let us learn how to make Amrakhand following this easy recipe.

Mango Shrikhand

How to prepare Mango Shrikhand

Prep time -10 mins (excluding preparation of hung yogurt)

Cook time - nil

Serves -2

Ingredients needed

Yogurt - 3 cups (should not be sour)

Powdered sugar - 1/4 -1/2 cup or as required

Pistachio -2 tbsp

Almonds - 4

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Saffron -10 strands

Warm milk -1 tbsp

Mango Puree - 1 cup (Mango should be sweet)

For garnishing

Few mango bits

Pistachio and almonds

Preparation

Place yogurt in a muslin cloth and hang it overnight or for 6-7 hours to drain out the whey from the yogurt.

Tie it and place it inside the refrigerator otherwise the yogurt will become sour.

Soak pistachio and almonds in hot water for 10 minutes. Remove the skin and chop it into small pieces.

Soak saffron in warm milk.

How to make hung curd

After 6 hours, I took the yogurt from the refrigerator. See how creamy the hung yogurt is in the picture below.

Method

Using a wire whisk or a spatula, mix the hung yogurt with powdered sugar nicely for 5-6 minutes or until the sugar dissolves. Shrikhand is all about texture, so mixing well is very important.

Now add the saffron soaked in milk, half of the chopped pistachio and almonds, mango puree, cardamom powder and mix well.

how to make mango shrikhand

Keep it in the fridge for an hour. Garnish with chopped pistachio, almonds and mango pieces.This dessert should be served chilled.

AamKhand or Amrakhand or Mango Shrikhand is popular Maharashtrian dessert made with hung yogurt/curd and mango pulp. I wanted to make shrikhand for long now and one fine day I end up with trying aam khand or amrakhand since I had fresh mango pulp in hand. It's a easy and simple dessert with delicious taste.

Here is some interesting facts about Mango ~ Mango is rich in a variety of phytochemicals and nutrients. The fruit pulp is high in prebiotic dietary fiber, vitamin C, polyphenols and provitamin A carotenoids.

Mango contains essential vitamins and dietary minerals. The antioxidant vitamins A, C and E comprise 25%, 76% and 9% of the Dietary

Mango peel contains pigments that may have antioxidant properties, including carotenoids, such as the provitamin A compound, beta-carotene, lutein and alpha-carotene, polyphenols such as quercetin, kaempferol, gallic acid, caffeic acid, catechins, tannins, and the unique mango xanthone, mangiferin, any of which may counteract free radicals in various disease processes as revealed in preliminary research. Phytochemical and nutrient content appears to vary across mango species. Up to 25 different carotenoids have been isolated from mango pulp, the densest of which was beta-carotene, which accounts for the yellow-orange pigmentation of most mango species. Peel and leaves also have significant polyphenol content, including xanthones, mangiferin and gallic acid.

Ingredients:

Curd/Yogurt - 1 &1/2 cup

Mango Pulp - 3/4 cup

Sugar - 2 tbsp [to taste]

Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp

Almond & Pista - 2 tbsp chopped

Method:

1. In a muslin or cheese cloth transfer the curd and hang it to discard all excess water for 4-5 hours, I did for 30 mins as my curd normally is very thick.

2. Beat mango pulp along with sugar and cardamom powder (sugar depends on your taste bud and also on the mango sweetness)

3. Mix well hung curd with mango pulp.

4. Add chopped nuts and chill for 2-3 hours.

5. Garnish with chopped and serve or chill and serve.