Rice Kheer Recipe With Step By Step Pictures

Kheer recipe   Kheer recipe is basically a rice pudding, enriched with spices like cardamom and saffron. Because of using saffron (kesar), this kheer called Kesari Kheer. In North India, kheer is made on most occasions. I have grown up eating Kheer of many variations and today I am sharing the most common and popular version known as Kesari Rice Kheer ( will share few other versions later posts). Let’s go through recipe. Ingredient ½ cup Basmati rice (Soaked in water for 15 min) 2 cup whole milk 1 ½ tbsp sugar to taste ½ cup condensed milk Pinch of saffron strands 1/4 tsp cardamom powder 10-12 cashew nuts 10- 12 raisins 5-6 chopped pistachio for garnish Step by step Kheer recipe Pour the milk into a heavy bottom pan and boil. Add soaked rice to the milk. Slowly bring to the boil and then let it simmer on low heat. Stir it occasionally to avoid the rice from sticking to the bottom of the pan. When rice are half way done, add cardamom powder, kesar(saffron), cashew nuts and raisins followed …