Kesar Sitaphal Phirni/ Saffron Custard apple rice pudding
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3-4
 
Ingredients
  • 150 gram rice soaked in a bowl filled with water for 1 hour
  • 225 gram pulp of custard apple (extracted from 700 gram custard apple)
  • 1 litre full cream Milk
  • 80 gram sugar
  • 1 tsp cardamom powder
  • few saffron strands
  • Cashewnuts
  • Blanched and peeled Almonds
  • Pistachios
Instructions
  1. Soak saffron strands in 1 tbsp milk
  2. Drain the water from rice. Grind the soaked rice with little milk to a paste thick consistency.Paste should be coarse and must be of thick in consistency.
  3. Make a fine paste using half of the pulp (125 gram) with 1 tbsp milk.
  4. Heat milk in a large pan on low flame. Keep stirring the milk.
  5. As soon as milk starts boiling, add saffron to the milk and mix it well .
  6. After 5 mins, we will add rice paste to the milk. However, as this paste is thick, add some milk to the paste and stir it well before adding it to the pan.
  7. Stir in the rice paste into the milk. Keep stiring the milk at the same time to avoid the formation of lumps.
  8. After adding rice paste, keep stirring to prevent rice from sticking at the bottom of the pan.
  9. In 6-7 minutes, rice gets cooked. Now add sugar, cashewnuts, almonds, cardamom powder and mix them well.Remember Keep stirring.
  10. In about 3 mins sugar should get completely dissolved. Now turn off the flame.Remember Keep stirring.
  11. After bringing Phirni off the flame, let it cool down for few minutes (we dont want it to cool down completely, just allow it to get little warm). Now add custard apple paste and mix it well.
  12. Now to make our dessert a bit more crunchy, add remaining custard apple pulp and mix well.
  13. Serve the Phirni in Kasore (clay bowls) or glass bowls and refrigerate for atleast 2 hours.Kasore are clay bowls that can be bought from potters in India. These are also available online.
  14. Kesar-Sitaphal Phirni is best when served chilled
Recipe by Kali Mirch - by Smita at https://kalimirchbysmita.com/kesar-sitaphal-phirni-saffron-custard-apple-rice-pudding/