Badam Payasam

Ingredients:


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






Method:


Boil half a litre of water in a sauce pan . add the almonds when the water is boiling and cook for 2 minutes. remove from the flame and drain.
Remove the skin of the almonds and grind to a fine paste.
Boil the milk in a thick bottomed pan. when the milk begins to boil add the almond paste and the sugar and cook for 5 minutes over a low flame stirring continuously.
Remove from the flame.. add the dissolved saffron and the crushed cardamoms.
Allow to cool and serve chilled.