Kalakand Recipe

Ingredient

Milk – 2 litres

Sugar – 1 cup

Lemon juice – 2 tbl.sp

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Chopped almonds and pistachios

Method

Take two pan, one should be a heavy bottomed pan.

Add 1 litre of milk in both. The milk that is boiling in heavy bottom pan should be cooked till it is reduced to half, keep on stirring it.

When the milk has reduced to half add this crumbled paneer, sugar and cardamom powder and cook on a low flame stirring continuously.

When it thickens pour this on a flat surface and leave it to set or you can even refrigerate it for few hours. Decorate with almonds and pistachios and serve.

For making paneer

In another pan, when the milk starts boiling add lemon juice. When it starts to curdle, remove it in a strainer covered with muslin cloth. Then add plain water to it so that  the sourness of the  lemon juice is removed. Squeeze out the excess water. Our paneer is ready.