Make phirni with simple ingredients. (Source: getty images)
Craving a creamy and milky dessert? How about making phirni at home? All you need to make this delicious dish are three basic and easily available ingredients — milk, rice and sugar, although you would need some time and patience to cook it.
Celebrity chef Kunal Kapur recently shared a simple phirni recipe on Instagram. Try this:
Ingredients
4 tbsp – Basmati rice, soaked
8 tbsp – Sugar
1 and 1 cup – Milk (full fat)
Assorted nuts, a handful (optional)
¾ tsp – Cardamom powder (optional)
1 tbsp – Desi ghee (optional)
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Method
* Put rice in a grinder. Add one cup of milk to it and grind.
* Empty the rice and milk mixture in a bowl.
* Take one litre of milk in a pan. Bring it to boil.
* Meanwhile, chop the assorted nuts (optional).
* Add the rice-milk mixture to the pan of milk. Keep stirring the milk as you do.
* Stir the milk continuously as you cook it for 15-20 minutes till the phirni becomes slightly thick.
* Now add the sugar, followed by cardamom powder. Mix well.
* Add ghee and assorted nuts, and mix.
* Transfer the phirni to a plate or a shallow bowl and let it cool.
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