Pal Therattipal - This recipe is generally prepared during Diwali in our home. There are various ways to prepare this recipe and I generally use condense milk and yogurt in microwave which is the easiest of all. My mother does it in the traditional way by just using milk and sugar. Some of them use jaggery in place of sugar but I like the sugar version only. This way of cooking the recipe is time consuming but the taste will be just awesome.
Take a heavy bottom vessel, preferably a cooker pan. Add milk keeping the gas at low. Mix it every 6-8 minutes for the first 1 hour 15 mins. After which must keep stirring every 3-4mins until adding sugar.
Keep cleaning the corners in the pan at regular intervals. You may use a knife to scrap the corners.
Add sugar when the quantity is nearly 1/4th which is about 1hr 30 mins.
Once sugar is added we must keep stirring continuously. The milk might get diluted due to sugar initially but it will thicken immediately.
Once it thickens like a therattipal consistency add cardamom powder which we added just 5 minutes before switching off.
Switch off the gas and leave the therattipal for 5 mins in the pan.