How easy it is to have a food blog? I wondered. All you have got to do is make a dish,take picture, write the recipe and post….simple I thought!!! why not I too have a blog and share recipes from my kitchen with you all just like the wonderful food bloggers whom I have been reading and trying out the recipes. Alas! nothing is easy in life. I realized, its quite a task to do. After taking endless photos of the dish I get only one shot right. And when it comes to the writing part, I am blank and clueless.
And the food bloggers out there you guys are just awesome, hats off to you guys. Some of you work full time and maintain a beautiful blog..how do you do that??? I am sure I too will get a hang of this blogging , hopefully! Anyway, this is my sincere attempt to share some of the recipes which I have grown up on eating and few tried and tested from reading here and there.
Today I am sharing a recipe of a sweet dish called phirni which is basically a rice and milk pudding with a hint of saffron. The rice is ground and added to the milk and cooked till it thickens and served chilled. It is super easy and anyone can make, like people who are learning to cook. so try it!!
KESAR PHIRNI
Serves:- 4 to 5
Preparation time:- 30 to 35
Soaking time:- 2hrs
Ingredients:
- Milk- 1 ltr
- Jeera samba or basmati Rice- 3 to 4 tbsp
- Sugar- 3/4th cup
- Cardamom powder- 1/4 tspn
- saffron strands- 3 pinch soaked in warm milk
- Yellow food color- A pinch (optional)
- Water- for grinding the rice
- Pista- A handful for garnish
Method:
- Wash and soak the rice for 2 hours. Grind the soaked rice with half cup of water. It should be little grainy. Keep aside.
- In a pan pour a liter of milk and boil.
- Once it comes to a boil, add sugar and stir well till it melts.
- Next lower the flame and add the ground rice stirring simultaneously so that no lumps are formed. keep stirring so that it doesn’t get burned at the bottom. you will see that the milk starts thickening.
- Add the soaked saffron in the milk. you can add little yellow food color if you want its optional. I added a pinch.
- And lastly add the crushed cardamom seeds. keep stirring.
- After 10 mins or so, Remove from fire ,cool it and transfer it to the refrigerator. It gets thickened when chilled.
- serve it chilled and garnished with pistachios.
