Ravya chi kheer

I don’t really have a sweet tooth nor is my hubby keen on having sweets & desserts, but once in a while we get an urge for a traditional dessert.

Cakes, pastries, truffles, custards, tarts, paulav & other western sweets and desserts are very delicious(I like them too ; ), but the rich creamy sweetness of kheer, gulabjamuns , rasgullas ,shrikhand is altogether different, all of them bring good sweet memories of home!

Dessert as such is not an Indian concept rather we have sweet dishes! In the sense that sweets aren’t served after the end of a meal – instead they are always part of the Indian meal. (shrikhand puri, halwa puri! Kheer chapatti, puran poli ! !)
Out of the large variety of indian sweets kheer is the simplest of all
And best part of all, is that it uses ingredients that can be found in most of the Indian kitchens at any given time!
Now something about kheer- Kheer is essentially a sweet dish made from a main ingredient like rava /shevaya /rice /carrots/almonds cooked in milk and sugar; it is usually flavored with some cardamom, nutmeg & saffron. Dry fruits like- cashews, almonds, raisins are added to put that extra elegance & richness to the dish. . Best part of it for me is the aroma - warm, sweet& inviting.

I am posting a simple but very tasty , easy to cook, quick to make recipe of kheer - Since rava / suji is so easily cooked, there was no need for soaking, grinding, reducing anything.
This tastes yummy when it is warm as well as cold.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup rava/ suji/ cream of wheat

1- 2tsp ghee

1 litre milk

7-8 cashews broken into pieces

7-8pistachios thinly sliced

7 -8 almonds thinly sliced

2 tsp raisins

10- 11 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp Cardamom powder, nutmeg powder

Some saffron strands

Procedure:

• Melt ghee in pan, add rava & fry until it gives aroma (golden brown colour).
• Add milk to the rava & simmer until liquid has been reduced by 3/4 to half.
• Add sugar and cook until dissolved. Add the nuts and simmer for a few minutes. Adjust sweetness as per taste.
• Add Cardamom powder, nutmeg powder
• Remove from heat and garnish with saffron. Serve warm or cold.

Try out this and do let me know.