Strawberry Srikhand
Cook Time
8-10 Hours
Level
Medium
Yield
2 servings
Srikhand is a flavored creamy Indian dessert made of plain yogurt. Widely popular in Gujarat cuisine and Maharashtra cuisine, shrikhand is prepared by hung yogurt. Plain yogurt is tied in muslin cloth and hung for couple of hours to let go most of the watery content leaving a thick creamy yogurt. It is then blended with strawberries and garnished with chopped strawberries and sunflower seeds.Shrikhand also called as Strawberry Shrikhand, Strawberry Flavored Hung Yogurt can be flavored in numerous ways with various dried nuts and seasonal fruits. Most popular of shrikhand are mango shrikhand also called amarkhand, kesar pista shrikhand having loads of pistachios and yogurt flavored with saffron.
Ingredients for Strawberry Srikhand:
- Sugar / Honey to taste
- Sunflower Seeds (Charoli) 1 tbsp
- Plain Yogurt 1 1/2 cups
- Strawberries 6 - Mashed/chopped
Method to prepare Strawberry Srikhand:
- Tie the plain yogurt (little sweet) in a clean muslin cloth and hang it in refrigerator for some 6 - 10 hours with a bowl underneath to collect the whey.
- Thoroughly wash and mash the strawberries.Roughly chop the hulled strawberries and leave some for garnish if you wish.
- Use washed sunflower seeds and keep aside.
- Smoothly blend strawberries, hung yogurt and sugar.
- Taste, add more sugar if necessary, blend and remove onto serving bowl.
- Stir in half of sunflower seeds and garnish the remaining.
- Serve chilled.
