Name: Kesar Phirni
Prep time: 250 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 295 min
Ingredients: 1 ¼ liter milk (Full cream ); 1/4 cup Rice (soaked); 1 gm Saffron (broiled); 30 gm Pistachios; 1/2 cup Sugar (or as required); ½ teaspoon Cardamom powder; ½ tbsp Rose water; 15 gm Pistachio (slivered); 1/2 gm Saffron (broiled); 2 teaspoon Rose Petals dried

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The scrumptious blend of Milk and Rice, with a dash of sugar, flavored with green cardamom powder, drizzled with rose water and laced with saffron, garnished with pistachio nuts and rose petals will add beauty to your dining table and will delight your guest.

Prep Time 4 10

Cook Time 45

Total Time 4 55

Served AsDesserts

CuisineDesserts, Homestyle Cooking, North Indian

Recipe Taste Sweet

Servings

Ingredients

For the garnish:

▢ 15 gm Pistachio slivered
▢ 1/2 gm Saffron broiled
▢ 2 teaspoon Rose Petals dried

Instructions

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Pick, wash and soak rice for 1 ½ hours.
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Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan and set aside. Drain and grind the rice coarsely.
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Broil saffron and set aside. Blanch pistachios, peel and cut into slivers.
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Add the coarsely ground rice paste to the milk and cook stirring continuously so that there are no lumps and it does not burn or stick to the bottom of the pan.
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Add Sugar and mix. Add green cardamom powder, saffron and mix. Add rose water. When the mixtures starts thickening take it off the flame.
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Pour into soaked Kasoras / earthenware pots and keep them in the refrigerator to chill for 1 to 1 ½ hours.
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Served chilled garnished with slivered pistachio nuts, saffron and dried rose petals.

Notes

About the Author: This recipe has been shared by Chef Reetu Uday Kugaji who believes that food that she cooks should touch heart and soul of the person and she dedicates all her success to her Angel Mother.