Bhappa Doi cheesecake – Steamed yogurt cheesecake!!

When life brings friends from your past together, it must be marked by something sweet! 

To everyone who has made this journey from little girls in pinafore's to  beautiful,gorgeous women so memorably captivating, starting with dessert would be epic :).

Here is an east meets west sweet something.

I used low fat versions of all the ingredients.

Ingredients

1 cup thick yogurt ( Greek works great)

1 cup condensed milk ( I reduced this to 3/4 cup because I did not want it to be too sweet)

1/2 cup evaporated milk

A pinch of saffron soaked in 2 tbsp of milk

1 tsp cardamom powder

For the crust

9 graham crackers or digestive biscuits crushed

2 tbsp of melted butter

Mix butter and crushed graham crackers. Pack it at the bottom of a single serve bowl or a cake pan or a spring form pan. Bake for 10 mins at 400 degrees.

In the meanwhile mix all

Ingredients for the custard. Remove the pan with the crust from the oven and leg it cool for a bit. Pour custard in it. Now place this pan in an oven safe bowl, fill with hot water half way and bake at 400 degrees. The cheesecake is ready when the center is still a little wobbly but a knife comes out clean. Remove from oven and chill in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours.