Haleeb Bil Hail

Haleeb Bil Hail means milk with cardamom. While growing up my mother in law used to serve this drink to my husband before school. Its a great drink for kids that do not like milk and for anyone else who just loves an exotic drink. I love to have this drink just as much as coffee or tea, its that good. To bruise a cardamom you just carefully press it until it opens. I do this with cardamom pods before I add them to anything. You can also adjust the sugar to your taste as well. I always discard the spices before adding to the cups. The spices in the above picture were for the picture alone.

2 cups milk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
6 green cardamom pods, bruised

1. In a 1-quart pan on medium heat add milk, sugar, cinnamon sticks and cardamom. Stir constantly until milk is hot not allowing milk to stick to pan bottom. Carefully pour into glasses and serve.

Yields: 2 servings