Flaked Rice Pudding -Kheer

Rice pudding is a very popular Indian dessert that is served at religiousfestivals and as prasad- a  sweet offering to the dieties. It can be made from short grain rice or flaked rice. In todays post I have made my Kheer using flaked rice and adding traditional Indian spices such as saffron, cardamom and nutmeg.

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Flaked Rice Pudding -Kheer

by Nayna Kanabar February 14th  -2015

Creamy rich flaked rice pudding cooked with fragrant Indian spices and nuts.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups full cream milk
• 1/2 cup thin flaked rice
• 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 5 almonds
• 5 cashew nuts
• 5 pistachio nuts
• 1 teaspoon cardamon powder
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg powder
• few strands saffron

Method:

1.In a heavy bottomed pan, pour the milk and bring it to a slow simmer. 2.Put the flaked rice in a large sieve and rinse them under cold water.3.Add the rinsed flaked rice to the milk and simmer the milk until the flaked rice is soft, it will takeabout 8 minutes.4. Add the condensed milk to the pan and simmer for 2-3 minutes longer .5.Slice the the nuts  and keep them aside.6. Add a few strands of saffron, half the nuts, cardamom powder, nutmeg  into the rice pudding and stir together 8.Take the rice pudding off the heat and transfer to a serving bowl , garnish with remaining nuts. 

Details

Prep time:10 mins Cooking Time:20 minutes Total time:30 Yield: 3 servings

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