Rice Kheer Recipe (Rice Pudding)

Ingredients:-

• Short Grain Rice or Tukada - 100 gm
• Full Cream Milk - 1 kg
• Sugar - 200 grams or to taste
• 4-5 cardamom seeds (crushed)
• 15-20 Raisins
• 10-15 Almonds (chopped)
• 5-7 strands of saffron
• 10-15 Cashew nuts (chopped)

Recipe:-

• Wash rice properly and let them soak in water for 20-25 minutes.
• Soak raisins in water for 10-20 minutes.
• Take a deep frying pan and pour milk in it till it boils.
• Now add washed & soaked rice to boiled milk. Keep flame low and start stirring the rice & milk mixture with serving spoon. Cook until the rice is soft and milk is creamy & reduced about to half.
• Add sugar, saffron, almonds, cashew nuts, cardamom seeds and raisins. Mix them properly with kheer and turn off the flame after 4-5 minutes.
• Rice Kheer is ready and can be served warm or chilled as you like.

Tip:- Chilled Rice kheer is like heaven.

Sweet Dalia Recipe

Ingredients (one serving):-

1/2 liter milk
100 grams raw dalia
about 200 ml water
8-10 almonds (optional)
10-15 raisins (optional)
5-7 cashew nuts (optional)
4 table spoon sugar or to taste
1 1/2 table spoon ghee

Recipe:-
(a) It would be great if we have almonds soaked in water overnight. Remove their cover & cut them in small pieces. Even they are not soaked then grate them in small pieces and keep aside.
(b) Soak raisins (kishmish) in water 20-25 minutes before you start cooking.
(c) Cut cashew nuts in small pieces.
(d) Heat 1 1/2 table spoon ghee in frying pane on low flame and now add raw dalia to it. Roast dalia for 4-5 minutes and keep stirring this with serving spoon (kadchi) till it turn brown. Now pour water in it and keep stirring it till 5% water remains on low flame. Now pour milk to it and continue to stir it with serving spoon for next 10 minutes on medium flame.
(e) Add sugar two minutes before you turn off the flame. Stir the dalia properly so that sugar get mixed to it. Turn off the flame.
(f) Now add almonds, cashew nuts & raisins. Let this cool down to room temperature.
(g) Serve it.

Values:- This is yummy breakfast for many. Dalia contains carbohydrates, fiber and protein. Cholesterol and fats are almost nil.