| Wash the meal down with a tall glass of thick, creamy piyush, which is basically a more liquidy version of shrikhand, a sweet, saffron-laced strained yogurt. |
| Arrange them neatly on plates, adding a generous dollop of shrikhand on top, and finally sprinkle with the crushed pistachios. |
| For desserts, pick the kesar-infused shrikhand over gulab jamuns, moong daal halwa and rose kheer. |
| To serve, spoon the chilled shrikhand into individual glasses or bowls and garnish with the pistachios and chopped mango. |
| Shrikhand, a sweet dish made from strained yogurt, is a main dessert of Maharashtrian cuisine. |
| Mr. Tembe, 59, a classical music aficionado, also cooked, specializing in an Indian sweet called shrikhand, made with sour cream. |
