Indian Style Rice Pudding
This is a lovely dish to serve after an Indian themed dinner party! Get everyone to dress up and get into the theme of the evening. This is very easy to make, and even easier to eat!
This uses Indian spice and herbs. You could experiment with different flavours and different spices to get more Asian themed dishes. With this dish you will not be using jams, but you could use a fruit like pear, or passion fruit, or pineapple. This is called kheer. You could add chopped nuts to the top, or mixed through the dish for some more flavour.
Ingredients:
- 250g pudding rice or short grain rice
- 1litre whole milk
- 3tbsp sugar (this doesn’t seem like much, but the flavours make up for it)
- Pinch of saffron
- 1 tsp. cardamom powder
- A good handful of nuts, whatever you fancy
- Good handful of raisins if you like them
- 1 tsp. ghee
Method of Preparation:
Heat up the ghee in a saucepan. Add the nuts and raisins and cook them through till the raisins are plump.
Add the rice to the saucepan and cook for a few minutes. This will absorb the nutty flavour.
Pop the milk in and give it a mix around.
DON’T LET IT BURN! If the milk burns, it is really not nice and you will have to start again.
Mix the sugar back through.
Reduce the heat and cook slowly until the milk has halved in volume, it will be thick and creamy by this stage.
This will take around thirty minutes.
Add the spices and about half of the nut mixture, and stir this round.
Pour this into your serving dishes and add more sprinkled nuts on top. You could add a couple of raisins on top too.
Have this hot or cold, up to you! You could also give it a quick sprinkle of cardamom on top.
A lovely way to serve is to also add some edible gold leaf, or silver leaf. You could also brush the nuts with the gold leaf and serve these on top of the rice pudding – you can also keep these in an airtight container and use in future on top of other desserts. Instead of cardamom powder, you could infuse the milk with a couple of open cardamom pods for a fresher flavour. Add vanilla, and infuse for about half an hour, careful not to let the milk burn.
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