Rice Kesar Kheer

Name: Rice Kesar Kheer
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 litre full cream milk; 1/2 bowl basmati rice; 1/2 bowl sugar; 8-10 strands saffron (kesar); 8-10 almonds; 5 pistachio; 5 cashew nuts; 12-15 raisins; 10-12 lotus seeds; 2 walnuts; 2 tbsp melon seeds; 4 Green cardamoms

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

New Delhi

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Sharad Purnima kheer recipe is a delicious dessert made with milk, sugar, rice, dry fruits and lotus seeds. Sharad Poornima is a harvest festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin, marking the end of the monsoon season. Sharad Poornima is also known as Kumara Purnima, Kojagiri Purnima, Navanna Purnima, or Kaumudi Purnima in different parts of India.

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

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Ingredients

45 minutes

4 servings

1 litrefull cream milk
1/2 bowlbasmati rice
1/2 bowlsugar
8-10 strandssaffron (kesar)
8-10almonds
5pistachio
5cashew nuts
12-15raisins
10-12lotus seeds
2walnuts
2 tbsp melon seeds
4Green cardamoms

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Steps

45 minutes

1

Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan.
2

Wash and Soak rice in water for 10 minutes.
3

Add soaked rice in boiled milk and cook on low flame till it turn thick. Keep stirring in between.
4

Gather all dry fruits and chop in small pieces. Roast lotus seeds and dry fruits in clarified butter. Transfer it in a plate. Wash melon seeds in water 2-3 times.
5

When kheer turn thick add sugar saffron strands and green cardamoms and mix and cook for 2 minutes till sugar dissolves completely. Now add all dry fruits and melon seeds. Mix well. Keep aside some for garnishing.
6

Let it cool to room temperature. Garnish it with remaining dry fruits and keep in moom light for as per auspicious time.
7

Sharad Purnima is a day in the Hindu calendar when the moon is believed to shower 'Amrit' or the elixir which makes one immortal. That is why on Sharad Purnima it is a custom in most of the Hindu households to prepare 'kheer'. Due to some belief, the kheer is kept under the moonlight throughout the night. The kheer is consumed the next day.
8

Then offer as prasad. And serve remaining kheer in the morning.