Recipe: Appetizing Apricot Shrikhand

Apricot Shrikhand.

You can have Apricot Shrikhand using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Apricot Shrikhand

1. Prepare 400 gms of yoghurt.
2. Prepare 200 grams of dried apricots, pitted.
3. It’s 1/2 tsp of lime juice.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of rose water.
5. It’s pinch of salt.
6. It’s pinch of saffron.
7. It’s 1/4 tsp of cardamom powder.
8. It’s as required of chopped pistachios, dried rose petals and cherries to garnish.

Apricot Shrikhand instructions

1. Pour the yoghurt in a cheese cloth and place on a strainer. Keep this on a bowl in the refrigerator overnight. The thick hung yoghurt is used for the recipe..
2. Soak the apricots overnight in 1 cup water. Then blend into a smooth paste. Heat a pan and simmer the apricot paste, lime juice, pinch of salt, saffron and cardamom powder till reduced and slightly thick. Keep aside to cool..
3. In a bowl, whisk together hung yoghurt and the reduced apricot. Pass it through a sieve to remove the granules..
4. Add the rose water and mix well. Chill before serving the shrikhand in individual bowls, garnished with chopped pistachios, cherries and rose petals..