BHAPA DOI (BAKED YOGURT)

Just one week left, festive season is on. The biggest festival of BENGALIS, which happens once in a year, is at our doorstep. In whichever part of world we are, we would celebrate. Maa Durga comes down to earth with four children leaving her husband Lord Shiva back in heaven. She showers her blessings on us. Earth is said to be her parental house.

Mythology says Durga Puja was at first  celebrated during Spring. It was King Rama, said to be the 7th incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who celebrated for the first time in Autumn before going to kill the demon Ravana. Story goes long which this blog space & blog owner's knowledge level may not permit.

All these five days, we indulge ourselves to extreme, whichever part of world we are in. We prepare a lot of home made sweets, greet people with warmth. I thought of sharing few recipes of homemade sweets. Let's start with BHAPA DOI (Baked Yogurt) today. You need less ingredients for this. Method is too easy. If you have a sweet tooth, you would love it.

INGREDIENTS :

Plain Yogurt : 1 Coffee Mug.
Evaporated Milk : 1/4 Coffee Mug
Condensed Milk : 1/2 Coffee Mug (you can adjust as per your taste)
Ground Almond : 1 tsp
Chopped Pistachios : 2 tsp
Cardamom Powder  : 1/4 tsp

PROCEDURE :

Blend plain yogurt, evaporated milk, condensed milk together. Add ground almond, mix well. Pour onto an ovenproof bowl. Pour water in another ovenproof bowl .

Preheat oven! Place bowl with yogurt mix on top of bowl filled with water. It should be half immersed in water, not more than that. Cover the bowl with foil!

Bake for 30 minutes at 180*C, mine is a convection mode microwave oven. Take out, cool at room temperature.

Garnish baked yogurt with chopped Pistachios, then refrigerate for 3-4 hours. Serve chilled.

Every oven has different features. I would suggest you to check from time to time.