250 grm apricots (qubaani)
1/2 litre milk
125 grm sugar
Edible food color - red (optional)
1 tbsp clarified butter

Qubaani Ka Meetha

1. Soak apricots in just enough warm water for 6-7 hours or overnight. Using a knife separate fruit and nut. Keep the nuts aside. Using the same water blend the fruit pulp into a coarse paste.
2. Pour this paste in a thick bottomed pan, add milk and cook on a medium flame till it thickens. Keep stirring the mixture.
3. Add sugar and reduce the flame, and keep stirring. Cook for 10 more minutes till it thickens and switch off the flame. Add color if using.
4. Crackle the nuts and carefully remove all the seeds. Soak them in hot water for a while and peel the skin. Split them and add these to the above milk mixture. Finally add clarified butter and stir well.
5. Serve scoops of it with fresh cream / vanilla ice-cream / plain custard.
   Serves: 7-8
   Preparation time: 30-40 minutes