Ingredients

• 2 liters - milk
• 1 cup - rice
• 16 green cardamoms (peeled)
• 40 strands - saffron (soaked in 1/4 cup hot milk)
• 15 tbsp - sugar (or as per taste)
• 15 almonds (sliced)
• 15 pistachios (sliced)

How to Make Kesar Rice Kheer

• Wash and soak the rice in water for 20 minutes.
• Drain out the water from the rice and grind it coarsely.
• Boil the milk in a heavy bottomed vessel.
• After a boil add the rice and stir continuously. Simmer.
• Stir at regular intervals so the rice does not stick to the bottom of the vessel.
• Add the saffron and cardamoms.
• Boil till the rice is cooked and the milk thickens.
• Add sugar and cook till the sugar dissolves.
• Boil the almonds and the pistachios in 1 cup water for 5 minutes.
• Cool and peel off the skin.
• Finely slice the almonds, pistachios and add it to the kheer.
• Serve hot or cold.