Shrikhand

I was so excited on those days when I came home from school to find my mother or grandmother had made this rich, delicate and creamy yoghurt. My grandmother would leave the homemade yoghurt in a muslin (cheesecloth) all night so that the water was entirely strained and all that was left was thick, pillowy natural yoghurt. She would add sugar, saffron and cardamom, and then garnish with pistachios. It was – and still is – as delicious as it is simple.

Making traditional shrikhand can