Shrikhand is yogurt in its dreamiest, creamiest dessert form, and it is one of my favorite sweets of all time. This impossibly smooth, thick, saffron-studded, I-can't-believe-I-made-this-with-yogurt treat is typical of the Indian state of Gujarat. When I'm back home in Texas, I make shrikhand with my dad’s homemade yogurt, but you can get that same silkiness with good-quality store-bought Greek yogurt. In what turned out to be a real game-changer, my friend Khushbu suggested putting shrikhand in a graham cracker crust and refrigerating it, like a no-bake pie. Shrikhand pie is an excellent idea, but I'm just as happy spooning it out of the bowl as is.
Excerpted from Indian-ish © 2019 by Priya Krishna with Ritu Krishna. Photography © 2019 by Mackenzie Kelley. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.