PHIRNI - RICE PUDDING

PHIRNI- RICE PUDDING.....ITS SMOOTH, ITS CREAMY, IT GIVES A COOLING EFFECT....

Ingredients :

Basmati rice - 3/4 cup
Whole milk - 1.5 litres
Condensed milk - 300 gms
Saffron strands - 2 pinch
Green cardamom - 8 nos
Almond / pistachios  - to garnish (chopped)

Method :

Wash the rice.
Soak the rice and the cardamon in 1.5 cups of water for an hour.
Grind the rice and the cardamom in the same water that has been used for soaking into a fine paste.
Strain  the paste through a strainer. Discard the rice and cardamom grains in the strainer. Use the strained paste.
Soak the saffron in 2 Tbsp of warm milk.
Boil the milk and keep cooking it for half and hour, stirring at regular intervals.
Add the condensed milk to the milk. stir well.
Slowly add in the rice paste to the boiling milk and ensure that it is being continuously stirred to avoid lumping.
Cook until it thickens to custard consistency .
Lightly crush the soaked saffron with fingers in the same milk in which it has been soaked.
Add this to the ready phirny.
Immediately transfer it into the serving dish.
Garnish with nuts.
Cool and refrigerate for 6-7 hours before serving.