First boil half litre full fat milk for five min, when Luke warm set in to curd or use ready made curd. Keep it in refrigerator.it should not become sour.

Put curd into muslin cloth and hang it for 3 to 4 hours, (if weather is hot hang it on sieve in refrigerator.) When all water from curd drained our then it is ready to use.

Mix hung curd and sugar. Pass it through soup strainer. Then pass mango purée through the same strainer.

Mix lightly then add mango pieces, cardamom powder and saffron milk.

Decorate with mango pieces and pistachio slices. Mango shrikhand is ready. Keep it in refrigerator. Serve with Puri or as dessert.

For preparing strawberry shrikhand, use following steps.

First cook cut strawberry with two spoons of sugar and let it cool.

Hang curd for three hours all water should drain out as detailed in mango shrikhand steps.

Pass hung curd and sugar together through strainer.

Add cut sugary strawberries and mix lightly. Shrikhand is ready.

Keep it in refrigerator and serve with strawberry slices.