Happy Holi / Shubha Basanta Utsav to My readers

Celebrating the colours of our beautiful relationship I wish you and your family all the bright hues of life. Have a wonderful Holi

 

Menu for Holi from my kitchen - cook and enjoy

 

Here are few preparations from my kitchen which is specific to Holi festival:-

Mawa Gujiya

 

Banana Malpua - a fried Indian pancake

 

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Best wishes for my readers for festival of Maha Shivaratri

Hope Lord Shiva fills your life with fulfillment and joy this year on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri

 

 

Maha Shivaratri Menu from my kitchen - cook and enjoy

Here are few preparations from my kitchen which is specific to Maha Shivaratri festival:-

Sabudana vada - a Tapioca Pearl vegan snacks

 

Sabudana Khichdi - Tapioca pearls pilaf

 

 

Chana Dal Kheer / Senaga pappu payasam / Chana Dal Payasam

Sagor Payes / Sabudana Kheer - A sweet dessert

 

 

 

 

Happy Women's Day

 Wishing all wonderful women readers of this blog a happy women's day

 

Chaler Payesh - Traditional Bengali style Rice Kheer

In this blog various desserts were described as we, Bengalees love sweet anything. But I missed this traditional Bengalee recipe for long but no further. Now it is here for our sugar tooth friends. Chaler Payesh is a traditional rice kheer recipe of Bengali cuisine. It is one of the favourites of the Bong community and is usually prepared during ceremonies and festivals. The kheer is creamy, rich, aromatic and melt in the mouth. Kheer in India usually refers to the sweet prepared by boiling milk and rice. Each region has its own variety of kheer and today I have the Bengali version here.

Usually gobindobhog or atap variety rice is used in preparing this sweet. If you do not have it available , use basmati rice. Bay leaf is added  to the milk while it is cooked, the aroma of it is pleasant. Rich milk is boiled and simmered in soaked rice grains on a low flame, it is then sweetened with sugar and garnished with dry fruits.

Let’s start the recipe without any delay:-

Preparation Time: - 10~15 min

Cooking Time: - 30~35 min

Servings: - 4~5 persons as per their capacity to consume

Ingredients:-

1. 4 cups (1L) milk
2. 6 tbsp Gobindobhog Atap chal or Basmati Rice or Jeera Rice
3. 1 Bay Leaf
4. 10 tbsp Sugar
5. 2 tbsp Ghee (Clarified butter)
6. Handful Cashew nuts
7. Handful Almond
8. 15 nos. Raisins
9. 1 tsp Cardamom Powder

 

Preparation: -

1.     Wash the rice thoroughly and keep soaked in water for 15 minutes.

2.     Take a thick bottom pan /kadahi and pour ½ tbsp Ghee in it.

3.     Stir fry the Cashew nuts and almond in it.  

4.     Add raisin, fry a couple of seconds and remove from Ghee. Keep the dry fruits aside. Shallow frying the dry fruits gives a nice smell for the payesh /kheer.

5.     Now add rest of the Ghee in the pot and pour the soaked rice in it after drying.

6.     Sauté a little so that the rice is smeared with ghee from all sides.

7.     Keep aside

8.     Put the milk in the same pan, stir and keep it to boil.

9.     Put bay leaf in it.

10.  Once it starts to boil, reduce the heat to medium low and let it simmer for 5~7 min. This way the flavor and colour of the milk will change from bright white to cream.

11.  Now add the rice to milk, stir it and increase the heat to boil again. Once started boiling again reduce the heat to low and let the rice and milk simmer gently until the rice is tender and milk is reduced to almost half of its original volume.

12.  Add the sugar slowly into it and continue stirring it. Increase the heat to high again to come to boil again. Then reduce the heat to cook on a low flame. Keep stirring in between.

13.  Cook for three minutes.

14.  Add the dry fruits and raisin in the mixture.

15.  Cook till we get the luxurious, rich pudding texture.

16.  Sprinkle cardamom powder and remove from flame.

17.  Cover with a lid to get rich flavor involving the cashew nuts and cardamom powder.

Rice Kheer / Chaler Payesh is ready now. Cool the preparation and serve as a yummy dessert.

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