Ingredients
Ghee- Half cup
Govind Bhog Or Basmati Rice- 1cup
Milk- ½ lt
Cardamom- 2-3
Kesar (Saffron)- 1 pinch
Pista (Pistachios)- 8-10 (broken into half)
Sugar- 1 ½-2 cups
Procedure
Take a deep bottomed frying pan and add the ghee to it. Let it get heated over a low flame.
Add the rice to the pan and fry it lightly over a low flame. Take it down before it turns reddish.
Now take another deep bottomed frying pan over the gas oven and pour the milk into it. Keep it on a medium flame.
Now keep stirring it slowly and bring it to simmer once the milk starts boiling.
Drop the cardamom seeds into the milk. Remove it after 5-6 minutes.
Now add the kesar and pista into it. Pour the rice into it now. Bring it to boil.
Turn off the gas oven after the rice gets boiled properly.
Your kesar pista kheer is now ready.
Let the kesar pista kheer cool down. Keep it in the refrigerator for further cooling.
Serve chilled Kesar Pista Kheer garnished with dry fruits to your guests. Kheer recipes are popular all over the globe as an awesome Indian sweet dish. Kheer is also prepared on religious ceremonies to give it as an offering to the Gods.
