North Indians are popular with their varieties of phirni or pudding which is a must during weddings or special occasions. North Indian desserts are known for their richness and sweetness. They love their desserts to the core. One of such lovable dessert of North Indians are rice phirni or rice pudding.
This creamy and rich desserts made of ground rice are easy to prepare with very little ingredients we have in our pantry. The rice based Indian pudding has a creamy and rich texture and enhanced with the natural flavors of cardamom and rose water. This milk based rice pudding melt in your mouth with added crunchiness from the almonds. I didn't add saffron strands into my rice phirni but you wish, you are more than welcome to add them soaked in little warm milk. That will give the phirni a hue of yellow colour but i prefer my rice phini to stay in white. Phirni are best to enjoy chilled.
Ingredients
1/4 cup basmati rice
1 litre full cream milk
7 cardamom pods, crushed
20-22 almonds,blanched and peeled
3/4 cup granulated white sugar
1 tsp rose water
Methods
Rinse rice and drain them. Keep aside.
In a coffee grinder, grind the rice to resemble fine semolina. Set aside.
Boil milk in a thick bottomed pan. Reduce heat to medium and stir in the ground rice into the milk. Add sugar and stir well.
Reduce heat to low and cook the ground rice for about 10-15 minutes by stirring in between.
Add the crushed cardamoms and almonds.
Cook for another 5-6 minutes or till the phirni thickens. Turn off heat.
Add the rose water and stir.
Pour into a bowl and garnish with almond slivers.
Cool the phirni to room temperature and refrigerate for an hour to chill.
Enjoy phirni chilled
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