Kheer

Kheer is not just a dessert for Indians. It’s an emotion, a mood, a feeling. Kheer can be made with very few ingredients like a handful of rice, a cup of water, 1.5 litres of milk, sugar and cardamom. But the most important ingredients which add the real taste to kheer are Dedication, Patience and Love. Making a good kheer if a slow process so let’s begin.

Ingredients (servings for 4)

• 1 handful of white rice (thoroughly washed)
• 1.5 cup of water
• 1.5 to 2 litres of milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 crushed black cardamom
• Nuts and raisins

Procedure

1. In a big Kadhai or any thick base vessel add water and washed rice.
2. Boil the rice on high flame till they are half cooked.
3. Now add half litres of milk to it, bring it a boil and then let it cook on low flame with occasional stirring.
4. When half of the milk in the rice is absorbed, add another half litres of milk and repeat step 3.
5. Now add remaining 1 litres of milk and cook it low flame for 10 minutes with occasional stirring.
6. Now add sugar and nuts. bring the rice to boil on high to medium flame with continuous stirring so that the milk in kheer doesn’t burn or stick on the sides.
7. Turn of the flame when kheer has semi solid consistency or you can keep the consistency as per your desire.
8. Kheer is ready.
9. Kindly note that many people like cold kheer, so in that case kindly add an extra two tbsp of sugar in step 6.
10. also remember that after cooling the consistency of kheer will thicken so in step 7 do manage the consistency by adding little extra milk.