Soulful Creations

This month's Indian Cooking Challenge  is a Sindhi winter special sweet called Majoon. Vaishali of Ribbons to Pastas  shared this wonderful recipe. This event was started by Srivalli of Spice your life . Interestingly if you google "Majoon", the top search results have something to do with marijuana :D. Majoon is an Arabic word for goodies that contain cannabis! Ingredients  1 cup vanilla almond milk 1 cup 2% Milk 1/4 cup Sugar 2tbsp Poppy seeds 1cup Khoya (unsweetened) 1 1/4 cups nuts (Almonds,walnuts, Cashews, Pistachios) 1/4cup Ghee 1tsp Cardamom powder 1/4cup Dry dates (chopped or pulsed) Method Bring milk and sugar t boil. Add the poppy seeds, khoya,cardamom powder and dry dates, and boil until the mixture is reduced to half. Coarsely grind, or mildly pound the nuts and add them to the boiling mixture. Let this mixture cook in low flame stirring in between, add the ghee slowly. Cook until the mixture seems dry (looks like a brownish milk hal...