Today's recipe is a sweet treat that I made many days ago. Kesar di Kheer or Saffron Rice Pudding.
Kheer is a traditional sweet dish, made by boiling rice or broken wheat with milk and sugar. It is flavoured with cardamoms, raisins, saffron, pistachios or almonds. It is typically served during a meal or also can be consumed alone.
In most southern states of India, you will mostly find vermicelli being used instead of grains. For me, when I say Kheer, I always mean only that made with Rice and Payasam when with vermicelli. And I don't make that often as hubby dear says we eat rice everyday, so why make a sweet with it. So on rare occasions I make, I ensure I go all the way in making it a grand occasion.
And before getting into the recipe, I wanted to share something. I just got to know that my blog has been nominated at the Indibloggies 2008. The voting starts in a day or two! Thank you everybody who had voted for me. Feels good to be featured on the list!
Kesar di Kheer or Saffron Rice Pudding
Ingredients Needed:
100 gms Basmati Rice
1 liter Milk
200 gms Condensed Milk
1 cup Sugar
5 to 6 strands Saffron
1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder
Cashew Nuts
Raisins
Almonds as required
2 tsp Ghee
Method to prepare:
Wash and soak basmati rice for 10 - 15 mins. Meanwhile boil the milk in a thick bottom pan. Once it reaches the boiling point, reduce to low flame and stir occasionally.
Soak saffron in a quarter cup of warm milk.
Heat a pan with ghee, roast the nuts till golden, remove and keep aside. Then drain the rice and roast for a minute. Remove from flame.
Add the roasted rice to the boiling milk and simmer for 20 mins. Check in interval to see if the grains are cooked. This can be done, by pressing a grain between your fingers. Reduce further for 5 mins. Add sugar and stir well to mix it.
It takes about 30 - 40 mins for the milk to get reduced to thick consistency. At this stage add the condensed milk, saffron milk and cardamom powder. Stir well, have the flame still in low. When it is mixed well, bring to boil on high flame, add in the roasted nuts, simmer for 5 mins.
This tastes great both hot or cold.
Notes:
Normally basmati rice is used to give its fragrance. Handle it gently when roasting the rice. Rice gets cooked in about 30 mins, so take care not to over cook it.
While adding condensed milk, have the flame low, else you will end up burning or curdling the mixture. At all stages in adding an ingredient to milk, you should add it slowly not to get the milk curdle.
The kheer is mostly white as the saffron normally doesn't lend so much colour. But being soaked and added to milk, lends a great fragrance to the sweet dish.
Unlike with vermicelli, which absorbs the milk more than the rice, you can reduce the milk more if you like thick kheer.
Recipe
Kesar di Kheer or Saffron Rice Pudding
Ingredients
- 100 gms Basmati Rice
- 1 liter Milk
- 200 gms Condensed Milk
- 1 cup Sugar
- 5 to 6 strands Saffron
- 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder
- Cashew Nuts as required
- Raisins as required
- Almonds as required
- 2 tsp Ghee
Instructions
- Wash and soak basmati rice for 10 - 15 mins. Meanwhile boil the milk in a thick bottom pan. Once it reaches the boiling point, reduce to low flame and stir occasionally.
- Soak saffron in a quarter cup of warm milk.
- Heat a pan with ghee, roast the nuts till golden, remove and keep aside. Then drain the rice and roast for a minute. Remove from flame.
- Add the roasted rice to the boiling milk and simmer for 20 mins. Check in interval to see if the grains are cooked. This can be done, by pressing a grain between your fingers. Reduce further for 5 mins. Add sugar and stir well to mix it.
- It takes about 30 - 40 mins for the milk to get reduced to thick consistency. At this stage add the condensed milk, saffron milk and cardamom powder. Stir well, have the flame still in low. When it is mixed well, bring to boil on high flame, add in the roasted nuts, simmer for 5 mins.
- This tastes great both hot or cold.
Notes
Sailaja Damodaran says
Congrats!!!!! nice recipe to enjoy the happy news...
Sonia says
What a coincidence! Even I have posted the Kheer recipe in my blog just few hours back. 🙂
jayasree says
A delicious kheer.
Tina says
Kheer looks delicious....
RAKS KITCHEN says
Kheer looks so tempting,this weekend going to make 😉
lata raja says
Congratulations on the sellection1
Celebrate with kheer? Very apt too.
Priya says
Kheer looks tempting and an excellent way to celebrate this great news..
Valarmathi says
Congrats Srivalli and kheer looks yummy.
shanthi says
Yummy recipe and nice to know that you are going to be featured. All the very best.
Happy cook says
That is indeed good news
Kanchan says
congrats !!
Cham says
Congrats on ur nomination... Lovely kheer to celebrate...
Silpa says
i jus love it...
Bong Mom says
Srivalli
Very nice recipe and Congrats.
Ginda says
Awesome Srivalli- Yummy yummy kheer
Anupama says
Delicious indeed!
Sh... says
Lovely recipe. That is an awesome click too
Uma says
Congrats on being nominated for the blog awards and this kheer is a nice way to celebrate the occasion..Yum!!
Burn Belly Fat says
Congrats! the food is perfect for the happy news you had!
notyet100 says
ummmm yum this looks nd congrtsfor being nominated
Sanjana says
That is such a beautiful and compassionate thing to do... congratulations. Love your blog and your recipes! Will defo be visitng often!