Wednesday, 7 May 2014

POSU... a simple spoilt-milk dessert!

Health management to waste management!! Is it good to consume spoiled milk??!! The reason for spoiling matters though. We, a bunch of people from Karnataka have a habit of heating milk in the morning which will be consumed all day long along with tea & coffee... But, if you forget to reheat in the evening, it will spoil to curdle and leave whey apart in the night when you re-boil. If it was small volume you least care, but if it's liters together then manage waste with the recipe I share.

Milk might spoil for various reasons. Bacterial activity is a prime cause. If not, there might be some contaminated vessel you have used for boiling milk. Upon heating milk it doesn't spoil but spoils on re-heating later in the evening is quite safe to use in the dessert. Edible if it is white only!!

Steps to procure precipitated/coagulated edible solids/proteins from spoiled milk:
  • When you observe milk spoiling upon heating, complete the heating procedure by further placing it on flame for about 5 more minutes.
  • Add ice to the hot spoiled milk as you put off the flame.
  • Allow it to cool for some time and pass entire content through a cloth (muslin cloth or any cotton cloth).
  • Wash the milk solids collected, thoroughly under running water.
  • Tie it with the same cloth and allow the water to drip completely. Squeeze out excess water and put that in a bowl and loosen softly with your fingers. It should appear like this!!


Recipe Ingredients:

Coagulated Milk proteins (malai)-1 bowl
Grated coconut                    - 3/4 bowl
Jaggery                                - 3/4 bowl

Cardamom powder                       - 1/4 dessert spoon
Pepper (ground)                            - 1/4 dessert spoon

Procedure:

1). Heat water (just to immerse jaggery) in a thick bottom pan.

2). Heat till it comes to one boil.

3). Allow it to stand for some time and strain it using a strainer. (jaggery comes wid some dirt!! so take care while u cook with it).

 4). Add, malai and grated coconut, saute occasionally placing it on flame.


 5). Let the moisture in it vaporize leaving bubbles at the edjes.
 6). Add cardamom powder and pepper powder just before you finish it.
 7). Tastes very good if served hot..


With spoiled milk, such a feast for sweet tooth!! Enjoy...

Feast-o-Meal,
Divya

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