WHAT IS THE ' TASTY PHIRNI' ....

Sweet Rice Phirni
Ingredients:
3 cups Milk ,
1\8 cup Rice,
8 Almonds,
1\2 cup Sugar,
1/2 tsp Crushed Cardamom powder.
Method :
Soak the almond in hot water for 15 minutes.
Drain, peel and cut the almonds into thin strips.
Soak rice for half an hour. Drain the water and grind in a mixer jar to a fine paste. Grind few soaked almonds with the rice for the extra flavor. In a heavy bottom sauce pan, heat the milk and bring it to a gentle boil. Add sugar and slowly incorporate the ground rice n almond paste, continuously whisking the mixture to avoid any lumps. Reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to whisk until the mixture becomes thick. Also add the crushed cardamom. Take it off the heat and allow it to cool. Chill in the refrigerator for 4-6 hours. Serve chilled with a garnish of cut almonds.
WHAT IS THE ' TASTY PHIRNI' ....
Phirni is a ’kheer’ like pudding made from milk, rice and sugar.
Phirni, is a traditional South Asian sweet dish, made by boiling rice or broken wheat with milk and sugar, and flavoured with cardamom, raisins, saffron.
Rice is used mainly as a thickening agent in this dessert.

Good quality Basmati rice used in making of Phirni.
Kheer is rice pudding made by boiling rice in milk and sugar and condiments for taste. While making the Kheer, rice stays whole and can also be made with vermicelli also. But in phirni the rice is ground n prepared in the same way.