Rabri

Reduced sweetened thickened milk — whole milk simmered in a wide, heavy pan for hours, the skin that forms on the surface folded back into the milk repeatedly until the volume reduces to one-third and the texture becomes thick, coarsely layered, and creamy. Sweetened with sugar and perfumed with cardamom, rose water, and saffron, garnished with pistachios and almonds. Eaten poured over jalebi (the defining pairing), malpua, or gulab jamun, or served chilled on its own in clay cups at Old Delhi sweet shops.