Rice Kheer Recipe

Rice Kheer Recipe

The delicious rice kheer can be made for festival season. mostly north Indian families make kheer in the "MONTH OF SAAWAN".creamy and rich with dry fruits are also called "Banarasi kheer".

TYPE: DESERT                                                                      

CUISINE: INDIAN                                                                

SERVES :4-5 SERVINGS:                                                     

PREPARATION:  TIME: 20 MINUTES 

COOKING TIME:30 MINUTES

TOTAL TIME:50 MINUTES

INGREDIENTS;

• 5 cup                         milk (full cream)
• 1 cup                         fresh malai
• 1/2 cup.                     Milk maid (optional)
• 3/4 cup                      rice
• 2 tsp                          custard powder (vanilla flavor)
• 2 tsp                           pistachio(chopped)
• 10-12                         almonds (roasted and chopped)
• 5-7                             cashew nuts (roasted and chopped)
• 1/2 tsp                         cardamom powder
• 1 tsp                             desi ghee
• according to taste        sugar

METHOD:

• Wash the rice and soak the rice for 30 minutes. prepare the custard powder paste, put 2 tsp custard powder in 1 cup milk and mix it well.
• Heat 1 tsp desi ghee into the heavy bottom pan grease the pan, add milk, let it boil on low flame, add the rice into the milk, keep stirring it continuously.
• on the low flame, let the rice cook in the milk
• When the rice has cooked, add custard paste and malai ,mix it well. put cardamom powder
• Put roasted and chopped almonds, cashew nuts.
• add sugar, when the kheer has thick, switch off the flame.
• Put the kheer into the serving bowl and garnishing with pistachio.
• you can serve the kheer hot or chilled, I prefer to eat chilled kheer

TIPS

• By greasing the pan before adding milk, the kheer will not stick to the pan.
• kheer is made good when it cooked on low flame. stirring it continuously.