Ember Crest recipe
Cardamom Rice Kheer
Creamy slow-cooked rice pudding with floral cardamom aroma.
- Prep
- 10 mins
- Cook
- 45 mins
- Serves
- 6
- Level
- Medium
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Ingredients
- 1 litre full-fat milk
- 70 g basmati rice, rinsed and soaked for 20 minutes
- 90 g sugar, or to taste
- 20 g raisins
- 25 g chopped almonds or pistachios
- 1 pinch saffron, optional
- 6 pods Green Cardamom
Instructions
- 1Remove the seeds from the Green Cardamom pods and grind them finely.
- 1Bring the milk to a gentle boil in a heavy pan.
- 2Add drained rice and cook on low heat for thirty minutes, stirring regularly.
- 3Add sugar, raisins and optional saffron and cook until the rice is very soft and the milk is creamy.
- 4Stir in ground cardamom, cook for one minute and remove from the heat.
- 5Garnish with nuts and serve warm or chilled.
Recipe notes
Cook slowly and stir often so the milk reduces without catching on the base.
