Total Servings: 2

Preparation Time: 10 minutes (8 hours for setting)

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

Milk 2 cups

Milk 1/2 cup (for grinding)

White bread 1 slice

Cornstarch 1/2 tsp

Sugar 5 tsp

Cardamom Pods 3-4 (powdered)

Pistachios 10 (for grinding)

Pistachios 3-5 finely chopped (for garnishing)

Saffron stands (few, optional)

STEPS:

Matka Kulfi:

1- Take a sauce pan and boil milk without adding water and keep stirring it.

2- Boil till it become thick and about only 1 cup is left.

3- Cut the bread into small pieces and remove the crust from all sides.

4- Now in a blender, add bread pieces, milk, pistachios, cornstarch together and blend well.

5- Add cardamom powder into the milk.

6- Boil it for few minutes and then add grinded pistachios and keep stirring.

7- Then add chopped pistachios and sugar into it and mix it well.

8- Milk will start becoming thick after adding cornstarch mix. Stir it continuously.

9- Once it thick like porridge consistency, remove it from heat.

10- Let it cool for some time.

11- Pour the mixture into a matka pot.

12- Wrap the pot and keep it in freezer for 6-7 hours.

13- Service it cold, straight from freezer.

Options:

1- If you want to make Kesar badam kulfi, you can replace pistachios with almonds.

2- If you want to make mango kulfi, mix mango pulp with the milk.

3- You can use kulfi mould if you don't have a pot and then insert a stick into it so that it becomes easy to take it out from mould.

4- If you use Matka pot, then soak it in water for 30-60 minutes before you use it

Do try this yummy Kulfi or ice cream and enjoy!!!