Milk Burfi: Indian Dessert

Recently, I'm going through another bout of youtube cooking videos addiction after a long time. Unlike previous times, however, this time I am determined to try out some recipes. Yesterday, I already made sheek kabab, since I followed that recipe almost to a T (well, almost except 1 ingredient that I didn't have handy), I didn't feel like writing about it or posting about it here.

Today, I made an Indian dessert that I never had before. It's called- Milk Burfi or in some places Kalakand. It's made of purely milk and sugar only.You just need varieties of milk..whole milk, skim milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, cheese (freshly made out of milk of course)...well, you don't need all those types of milk in one recipe, but the variation of it.

I watched two videos on this, but I didn't like either fully. I liked some part of 1 and the other part of another recipe. For ex, in 1 recipe, they simply used store bought Ricotta cheese and used a cup of sweetened condensed milk and cooked it up in microwave..............yuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkk!!! I would never "cook" anything in a microwave, I reluctantly "warm" food in a microwave let alone cooking. However, I did like the idea of using condensed milk in the recipe.

In the other video, cook used regular whole milk and made fresh cheese out of it. And then used more whole milk and white sugar to complete the process. I didn't like the use of sugar here...so, then I combined the two recipes and add one extra thing in mine and came up with below and it tasted GREAT!! Veryyy sweet...but that's how I like my dessert....sweet.

Here is my recipe:

Ingredients:

To make cheese:
3 cups of whole milk
3 tbs vinegar

1/2 cup of evaporated milk
1 cup of whole milk
1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk
Pistachio-grated about 2 tbs


Method:

Make Cheese:

Add 3 cups of whole milk into a pot and let it boil

Once it comes to a boil, add 3 table spoons of vinegar and give a stir

Turn off the heat and let the milk separate

Once milk is completely separated, drain the curled up milk/cheese and discard the water

Drain the cheese using a cheesecloth or paper towel very well, it should be dry.

Proceed:

Pour 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, 1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk and 1 cup of whole milk to a pot on a medium heat

Start stirring and keep stirring for about 1 min

Add cheese to the mixture and keep stirring

Let it boil and let the liquid completely dry up (continue stirring on and off)

Once the milk-cheese mixture is all dried, keep stirring so it doesn't burn and turn off the heat.

Pour the cheese mixture into a serving plate or any square/rectangular shaped bowl

While hot press the mixture with spoon and try to make the surface as even as possible and sprinkle pistachio

Let it cool for few minutes and then put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes so it's completely cools and hardens up

Take it out from the fridge, and cut it up in square pieces and enjoy!

Now, the pictures:

Add 3 cups of whole milk into a pot and let it boil

Add 3 table spoons of vinegar  and turn off the heat and let the milk separate

Drain the curled up milk/cheese

Once it's drained using a cheesecloth or paper towel squeeze out all water it should look like this

Pour 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, 1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk and 1 cup of whole milk into a pot on a medium heat and stir for a minute

Add cheese to the mixture and keep stirring

Let it boil and let the liquid completely dry up (continue stirring on and off)

In the meantime have the pistachios ready..grated

Once the milk-cheese mixture is all dried, keep stirring so it doesn't burn and turn off the heat

Pour the cheese mixture into a serving plate or any square/rectangular shaped bowl

While hot press the mixture with spoon and try to make the surface as even as possible and sprinkle pistachio;
Let it cool for few minutes and then put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes so it's completely cools and hardens up

Take it out from the fridge, and cut it up in square pieces

Enjoy!!