Rice Payasam

Rice Payasam is a very popular recipe. Learn how to prepare Rice Payasam by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:
• 1 cup Rice 
• 1 liter Milk 
• 4 Cashew Nuts 
• 4 Raisins 
• 4 Almonds 
• 2 Cardamoms (powdered) 
• 8 tbsp Sugar 
• 2 tbsp Ghee

How to make Rice Payasam:
• Heat ghee in a pan and gently fry the rice. Remove and keep to the side.
• Put little ghee in the same pan and fry cashew nuts, almonds, and raisins lightly.
• Mix in the fried rice, sugar, and cardamom.
• Pour milk and simmer on low flame until rice turns tender.
• Serve hot.

Lychee Kheer

Lychee Kheer is a tasty rice pudding with the flavor of tasty lychees. Learn how to make/prepare Lychee Kheer by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:


• 300 g Lychees (roughly chopped)

• 2 tbsp Basmati Rice (soaked and coarsely ground)

• 5 cups Milk

• 1/2 cup Sugar

• 3 tbsp Mawa (khoya) (grated)

• 1/2 tsp Green Cardamom Powder

• 12 Almonds (blanched and slivered)

• 12 Pistachios (blanched and slivered)

• A few drops Rose water


How to make Lychee Kheer:

• In a thick-bottomed pan, take the milk and bring it to a boil stirring all the while so that cream doesn’t form on the top.

• Add the coarsely ground rice to the milk and cook till done.

• Now add khoya, sugar and chopped lychees and stir for two minutes.

• Add green cardamom powder and rose water and mix well and remove the kheer from heat.

• Allow it to cool and serve garnished with almonds and pistachios.

Orange Kheer

Orange Kheer, also known as Kamla Kheer is a traditional Bengali recipe. Learn how to make/prepare Orange Khir by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:


• 2 Oranges

• 1 Litre milk

• 150 gms Sugar

• 1/2 tsp Kesar


How to make Orange Kheer:

• Peel off the skin of oranges.

• Remove the inner transparent skin also.

• Boil the milk in a kadhai.

• Continue boiling the milk and stir it periodically till it thickens.

• Add sugar into the milk.

• Continue boiling the milk till the color changes.

• Remove the milk from the fire. Cool it for 5 minutes.

• Now mix orange chunks and kesar to it.

• Cool the kheer for at least 2 hours.

• Orange Kheer is ready to serve.

Badam Kheer

Badam Kheer is a very popular recipe. It does not take a lot of time.........and it is good to serve during festivals and get togethers. Learn how to make/prepare Badam Kheer by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Almonds(badam)

• 6 Cups Milk

• 1 Cup Sugar

• 1/2 tsp Saffron Strands

• 2 Cup Water

How to make Badam Kheer:

• Soak badams in a hot water for about an hour.

• Drain the water, peel off the skin of almonds and make a fine paste in a grinder using milk if necessary.

• Cook badam paste for about 5 to10 minutes in a heated pan over low flame and stir it continuously.

• Add sugar and keep stirring the mixture.

• Pour the remaining milk and boil it for about 15 minutes.

• Garnish it with a few saffron strands and serve.

Suggestion: This can be served hot or cold.....it tastes good either way!

Aravana Payasam

Aravana Payasam is a very famous recipe. Aravana Payasam is often offered as a prasadam to the Gods in temples down south. It has a very auspicious note to it. Learn how to make Aravana Payasam by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:

• 4 cup Jaggery
• 1 tsp Cardamom Powder
• 1 Raisins(Dried Grapes)
• 10 Cashew
• 2 cup(473ml) Rice
• 1 cup (237 ml) Ghee

How to make Aravana Payasam:

• Wash rice and fry in ghee.
• Cook the rice by adding water.
• Add 1/2 cup of ghee to the rice and blend it on low flame.
• Put jaggery to the rice and cook for some time.
• Add rest of the ghee slowly on low flame so that rice, ghee, jaggery can mix well.
• Garnish with raisins.

Suggestions: Serve hot

Apple Kheer

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Apple Kheer is a popular vrat recipe especially prepared on Mahashivaratri. Learn how to make/prepare Apple Khir by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:
• 2 liter Whole Fat Milk
• 2 Cooking Apples (peeled & diced into small pieces)
• ½ cup Sugar
• ½ tsp Cardamom Powder
• 5 Almonds (thinly slivered)
• 5 Pistachios (thinly slivered)
• 15-20 Saffron Strands

How to make Apple Kheer:
• Take milk in a pan and heat until it is condensed to 2/3 in quantity.
• Put apples with sugar in a fresh pan and cook until apples are soft. Then drain the apples and also reserve the liquid.
• Add the reserved liquid to the milk and boil it for 5 min.
• Now, add apple with remaining ingredients except almonds & pistachios and cook it for 3-4 min.
• Sprinkle almonds and pistachios over it.
• Serve hot or chilled.

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Pal Payasam

Ingredients:

• 4 cups Whole Milk
• 3 tbsp Sugar to taste
• ¼ cup Short/Medium Grained Rice
• 1 tsp Ghee
• 4-5 Raisins
• Pinch of Saffron
• 1-2 tbsp Nuts (1used Almonds, Pistachios and Cashews)
• ¼ tsp Cardamom Powder

How to make Pal Payasam:

• Heat ghee in a sauce pan
• Add chopped nuts along with raisins in the sauce pan. Set it aside when the raisins get plump and nuts turn reddish brown.
• Roast rice for 2-3 min in the same pan over low heat.
• Add milk to the pan now and let it come to boil over medium-high heat. Stir it occasionally so that the milk does not stick to the bottom.
• It is better to use a non-stick pan, to make sure that the milk does not burn.
• Once the milk is boiled add sugar to it and stir it. Reduce the heat to medium and cook until the milk has reduced to half.
• Once the rice gets cooked and becomes soft and when the milk becomes half, the Payasam is done.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and stir gently till the ingredients combine and then serve it garnished with the remaining nuts.

Sweet Potato Kheer

Ingredients:

• 1 Medium sweet potato
• 1 Litre milk
• 1/3 Cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
• 1 tsp Raisins
• 1 tsp Almonds, slivered
• 1 tsp Pista (pistachios), slivered
• 1 tbsp Fine vermicelli
• 1 tsp Refined oil

How to make Sweet Potato Kheer:

• Steam the potato in a pressure cooker till 3 to 4 whistles.
• Peel off the skin of steamed potato and grate with a grater.
• Take oil in a thick bottomed pan and warm it.
• Add vermicelli and stir-fry until light golden.
• Drain the fried vermicelli and keep it aside.
• Pour milk in a deep pan and boil well for 7 to 8 minutes.
• Now add sweet grated potato, cardamom powder and sugar.
• Stir well until sugar gets dissolved.
• Then add remaining ingredients and simmer for 2 minutes.
• Take off heat and serve it hot.

Suggestions:

Be sure to add potatoes in milk just few minutes before serving.

Aval Payasam:

Ingredients:
• 1/4 Cup poha (flattened rice)
• 1 Litre whole cream milk
• 5 Almonds, thinly slivered
• 5 Pistachios thinly slivered
• 5 Pinches cardamom powder
• 1 Cup sugar
• 4 Cashews, broken
• 15 Raisins

How to make Aval Payasam:
• Wash and drain the poha. Leave it aside for 10 minutes.
• Separate poha grains with your finger.
• Boil the milk in a large vessel.
• When milk starts boiling, add poha and stir gently.
• Bring to boil again.
• Simmer till milk volume reduces to half. Stir occasionally.
• Now add sugar and cardamom. Stir to dissolve.
• Add raisins and cashews. Simmer for 2 more minutes.
• Garnish with chopped almonds and pistachios.
• Aval Payasam is ready.

CARROT KHEER

Ingredients:

• 6-8 Fresh carrots
• 1 Litre full cream milk
• 2 Cups sugar
• 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp Saffron
• 5-6 Sliced almonds
• Some cashews

How to make Carrot Kheer:

• Wash the carrots and cut the edges.
• Cut the carrots into small pieces and boil it in a pressure cooker.
• In the meantime, boil the milk in a big vessel and leave it on very low heat.
• Place the boiled carrot & saffron into a grinder and make paste of it.
• Then add the carrot paste into boiling milk and keep it on normal heat.
• Stir the mixture continuously and add sugar (add additional sugar as per the taste).
• Add cardamom powder and stir well.
• Heat the mixture until boiling state.
• Now let it cool for sometime.
• Refrigerate it for cold serving.
• Decorate with cashews and sliced almonds before serving.

Suggestions:

Serve it cold or hot as per choice.