A rice and milk dessert
Phirni is one of the easy sweet recipes to make for a beginner with minimal ingredients. Prep time: 10 min Cook time: 45 min Yield: 5 Main Ingredients: rice milk Ingredients Basmati rice - 1/3 cup (minus 1 tbsp of rice), soaked for 20 mts in water, drained and ground to a fine paste adding 1/2 cup milk Full cream milk - 4 cups Sugar - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsps Green cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Pistachios - fistful, blanched, peeled and sliced Rose petals - few (optional) Saffron - 8-9 strands (optional) soak in 2 tbsps of milk Method Bring the milk to a boil in a heavy bottomed vessel. Simmer till it reduced to 3/4 th of its original quantity. While the milk is simmering, drain the soaked basmati rice and grind to a fine paste add 1/2 cup of the boiled milk. Remove to a vessel, mix well and set aside. After the milk has reduced to 3/4th of its original quantity, slowly add the ground rice mixture and keep on stirring till it blends well into the milk and it starts to thicken. Keep on stirring so...