Fig kheer

Name: Fig kheer
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 3 peoples
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 21/2 cups milk; 7 dry figs; 1 pinch saffron; 1 tsp cardamom powder; 11/2 tsp basmati rice; 5 cashews; 5 almonds; 1 tsp ghee; 10 dry black grapes

Muniswari.G @muniswari_0205

Chennai

#ga24 #fig fig Kheer is a delicious fig and rice pudding cooked in milk sweetened with brown sugar and flavoured with saffron, and cardamom. Served with a garnish of almond, cashews this kheer makes a comforting winter dessert.

Muniswari.G @muniswari_0205

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Ingredients

20 minutes

3 peoples

21/2 cupsmilk
7dry figs
1 pinchsaffron
1 tspcardamom powder
11/2 tspbasmati rice
5cashews
5almonds
1 tspghee
10dry black grapes

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Steps

20 minutes

1

Soak the dried figs in ½ cup of warm water for 2 to 3 hours.
2

Wash the rice and soak it for an hour.
3

Use a chutney maker or mini processor to make a coarse paste of the soaked fig..
4

Heat the milk in a heavy-bottomed pan and bring it to a full to boil. Reduce the heat to low.
Add the soaked rice and cook until the milk is reduced to half.
5

Add the fig paste, saffron, and cook for 6 to 8 mins stirring constantly until the mixed well and starts to thicken.
6

Stir in the brown sugar until dissolved and switch off... Finally add cardamom powder mix well...
7

Roast cashews, almonds, raisins in a tablespoon of ghee and add it to the kheer...
8

Serve warm or chilled garnished with crushed almonds, cashews and chopped fig...