Kalakand | Kalakand Recipe | How to make Kalakand | Perfect Kalakand Recipe | Priya's Home Food

Kalakand is a popular Indian dessert made by reducing milk and sugar. This is moist, juicy, tastes delicious, has a perfect grainy structure and is garnished with generous amount of finely chopped nuts. Recipe: Ingredients: 2 liters Whole milk (divided) 2 tbsp Lemon juice 1/2 cup Sugar 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder (Ilachi) 1 tbsp ghee 2 tbsp chopped pistachios Method: 1. Heat 1 liter milk in a pot on medium flame and bring to a boil. Keep stirring the milk using a spatula to avoid sticking milk to the pot. 2. Reduce the flame to low and add 1 tbsp lemon juice. Stir well to allow milk to curdle. Add 1 tbsp more lemon juice and stir. Milk will curdle completely. Then turn off the flame. 3. Strain this into a colander lined with a muslin cloth. Rinse it with cold water to remove the lemon flavor from paneer. Drain the water completely and keep it aside. 4. Heat 1 liter milk in a wide bottomed pot and reduce it to half. Keep stirring. 5. Then add the paneer and stir on medium flame until it becomes thick. 6. Add sugar and cardamom powder. 7. Stir until it loses all the liquids and reaches the right consistency. 8. Coat a flat bottomed pan with ghee and transfer the paneer. 9. Spread and level it to 3/4 inch thickness. 10. Sprinkle chopped pistachios. 11. Rest it for 2 hrs and cut into squares.