Kheer — Indian Rice Pudding with Honey
A wonderfully tasty pudding from the Indian kitchen.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Toast the nuts in a dry skillet.
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Step 2:
Cook the rice in the milk — or start it in water as usual (in which case you'll need less milk) and stir the milk in at the end. Add the nuts, saffron, cardamom, and turmeric, and finish cooking.
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Step 3:
Take it off the heat and stir in the raisins (or add them earlier while it cooks, so they soak up the liquid and turn plump and juicy).
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Step 4:
From here you have two options: 1. Stir in ghee and sugar (cane sugar is best — it gives the kheer its authentic Indian flavor). 2. Add butter (or no butter at all), let the pudding cool, then stir in honey. Note that in Ayurvedic tradition, honey and heated ghee are considered incompatible, so this recipe keeps them separate.
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Step 5:
Once it has cooled, spoon the pudding into dessert cups and garnish with nuts to serve.
- Traditionally kheer is made with sugar, and cane sugar is used in authentic Indian versions. If you'd rather use honey, that works well too — just remember, in Ayurvedic tradition it's kept separate from heated ghee.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Raw wild rice - 353 kcal/100g
- Brown raw rice - 360 kcal/100g
- Boiled brown rice - 119 kcal/100g
- White fortified raw rice - 363 kcal/100g
- Fortified boiled white rice - 109 kcal/100g
- White rice, steamed, with long grains raw - 369 kcal/100g
- Steamed white rice, boiled with long grains - 106 kcal/100g
- Instant dry rice - 374 kcal/100g
- Instant rice, ready to eat - 109 kcal/100g
- Fig - 344 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black Walnut English Walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Black Persian Walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 kcal/100g
- Cardamom - 311 kcal/100g
- Turmeric - 325 kcal/100g
- Saffron - 310 kcal/100g
- Ghee - 892 kcal/100g
