Badam Payasam

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Badam
2 cups Milk 
3 tbsp Sugar 
5 crushed Cardamoms
a pinch of Saffron, soaked in lukewarm milk

Method:

Þ      Boil half a litre of water in a sauce pan.

Þ      Add the almonds when the water is boiling and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from the flame and drain. 

Þ     
Remove the skin of the almonds and grind to a fine paste. 
Boil the milk in a thick bottomed pan.

Þ      When the milk begins to boil adds the almond paste and the sugar and cook for 5 minutes over a low flame stirring continuously. 

Þ     
Remove from the flame. Add the dissolved saffron and the crushed cardamoms. 

Þ     
Allow to cool and serve chilled.