Full cream milk - 1 litre
Sugar - 250 gms
Cornflour - 1 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Chopped pista - 25 - 30
Powder the sugar.
Boil milk & continue to boil till it reduces to 1/3 volume ( do not allow to become khoa).
Add cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp milk.
Now add powdered sugar & stir continuously.
When it becomes quite thick ( crystallised look will appear at the edges – in tamil, we say “ poothu vanthathum” ), remove from flame.
Add cardamom powder, mix & allow the mixture to cool in that vessel.
When it starte solidifying, make 25-30 balls.
Take each ball & make a depression in the centre with the thumb.
Press a piece of chopped pista in the depression & store in papercups.