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Ingredients- China Grass (A packet of 10 grams)
- Milk (One Liter)
- Ilachi (Cardmom) - 6 pods - powdered without shells
- Pepper - 6 or 7 (optional) - coursely ground
- Couple of fruits like cherries for decoration
- Sugar - 2 cups (a little more or less per taste)
Procedure- Grind to powder cardmom after removing shells.
- Coorsely grind pepper seeds.
- Boil milk.Takeout china grass from packet and wash it in cold water to remove traces any preservative.
- After thoroughly washing, drain the water.
- When milk starts boiling, add washed and drained china grass.
- The China grass melts in the boiling milk in 4 to 5 minutes.
- After addging china grass, add two cups of sugar and stir constantly.
- After china grass and sugar melts, add cardamom power and coursely ground pepper.
- Stir well for a few seconds and remove the vessel from fire.
- Allow the mixture to cool a little.
- Then you may pour the mixture in separate small mounds like ice-cream cups or leave it in the vessel itself.
- Place fruits (cut to suitable size) on top of the mixture in each mould or sprinke these pieces in the vessel.
- Place the moulds or vessel with the mixture and fruits in refrigerator (not deep freezer).
- In about one hour, the mixture solidifies like ice-cream (or Junnu - if you have ever seen it). After it becomes solid, it will not melt like ice-cream.
- Fruits are only optional and without them also, this tastes good. If moulds are not available, pour the mixture in a deep plate, so that you may cut it into squares or diamonds after it becomes solid.
- Similarly, pepper is also optional. Please note that after it become solid, Pepper and cardamom power forms a sort of layer at the bottom.
- This tastes exactly like Junnu.
- If less quantity is required, you may use only 5 grams of china grass and half a liter milk.
- If not kept in refrigerator, consume on the same day. In fridge, remains edible for two days.
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