Shrikhand: Strained Yogurt Dessert
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Shrikhand — strained yogurt (identical to labneh in technique) sweetened with sugar and flavoured with saffron and cardamom — is the most elegant expression of the principle that the simplest preparations require the most careful ingredient selection. The strained yogurt is the entire dish; saffron and cardamom are accents that reveal rather than cover. Poor-quality yogurt, insufficient straining, or inferior saffron produce a flat, watery dessert. The same technique with full-fat live-culture yogurt strained overnight, good saffron, and freshly ground green cardamom produces something transcendent.
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