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Lachcha Rabdi Recipe, How To Make Rabdi

2013-06-06 by Anjana Chaturvedi 15 Comments

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Lachcha Rabdi -Indian Classic Dessert made with thickened milk,sugar and nuts

Lachcha Rabdi is a classic Indian dessert ,specially popular in North India.It is made with full fat milk which is thickened by boiling till it become almost half,the cream or malai is gathered on the sides of the pan to make thick lachchas and then it is flavoured with cardamon, saffron and rose water.

Sliced dry fruits are added to give it a royal touch.There are few instant methods to thicken the milk faster ,but they taste a lot different then this authentic lachcha rabdi.

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Lachcha Rabdi Recipe

lachcha Rabdi -Indian Classic Dessert made with thickened milk and nuts

Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time50 mins
Total Time1 hr
Course: Desserts/Sweets/Mithai
Cuisine: North Indian Cuisine, Uttar Pradesh Cuisine
Keyword: lachcha rabdi, rabdi
Servings: 4 people
Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

  • 2 liter Full fat Milk
  • 3/4 cup Sugar / Chini
  • 10 Pistachio / Pista
  • 10 Almonds / Badam
  • 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder / Elaichi Powder
  • 1/4 tsp Saffron / Kesar
  • 1 tsp Rose Water / Gulab Jal

Instructions

  • Soak,peel and chop almonds and pistachio.Soak saffron in hot milk and crush to make a paste.

  • Take a big,wide and heavy bottom pan or kadhai.Grease the sides and bottom of the pan with ghee.

  • Add milk in the pan and boil on medium flame.When milk start boiling ,a layer of malai start forming over the milk.

  • Now take the malai with the spatula and keep collecting it on the sides of the pan.

  • Collect on all the sides and keep stiring the milk in between so it will not stick in the bottom.

  • Keep repeating the process till the milk reduced to almost 1/3 .Now add sugar and boil for 10 minutes.

  • Add saffron,cardamom and chopped nuts and switch off the flame.

  • Now scrape the malai from the sides of the pan and add in the milk.

  • Let it come to room temperature.

  • Add rose water and refrigerate for minimum 2 hours .

  • Garnish with some chopped nuts and soaked saffron.

  • Serve chilled.

Notes

NOTE-
1-Always use a wide and thick bottom pan to make rabdi.
2-Don’t leave the pan unattended as it will spill over very soon.
3-Cooking on medium flame make it cook faster.
4- If you make it on low flame it takes lots of time and the colour will be almost pink,but no change in taste.
5-Add sugar according to your taste.

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Filed Under: Desserts /Sweet dishes /Mithai, Uttar Pradesh Cuisine, Vrat ka khana/Food for fasting Tagged With: Desserts, festival recipe, Indian desserts, lachcha, Milk, rabdi, satvik food, sweets, vrat ka khana

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Comments

  1. Priya Kheroun Tessy says

    2013-06-10 at

    Wow, rabdi is my favourite..can't wait to try it out.

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  2. Nisha says

    2013-06-08 at

    Beautiful dessert

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  3. Gayathri Ramanan says

    2013-06-08 at

    fabulous, mouth watering dessert

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  4. Sapana Behl says

    2013-06-07 at

    Wow ! What a lovely presentation of Rabdi..

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  5. Vimitha Anand says

    2013-06-07 at

    Thick, creamy and too good Ji!!!

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  6. Sowmya Madhavan says

    2013-06-07 at

    Never tried rabid and love the process of making it..

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  7. abraham says

    2013-06-07 at

    i am going to try it right away…

    Reply
  8. Rafeeda AR says

    2013-06-07 at

    That is such a delightful bowl of dessert…drooling here…

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  9. Rani's gourmet says

    2013-06-07 at

    wow!!! it is really tempting:)

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  10. Wer SAHM says

    2013-06-07 at

    rabdi looks simply delicious

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  11. prathibha Garre says

    2013-06-07 at

    just love this rabdi..looks delicious

    Reply
  12. Akila says

    2013-06-07 at

    Too tempting n inviting

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  13. divya says

    2013-06-06 at

    looks fabulous!

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  14. Shobha says

    2013-06-06 at

    Delicious rabri.. very well explained.

    Reply
  15. Priya Suresh says

    2013-06-06 at

    Omg, wat a tremendous and delightful dessert, wish to have a huge bowl of this droolworthy rabdi.

    Reply

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