Hello friends from today it’s going to be seasonal food
theme in our BM group. Still yesterday night I was so confused to prepare
dishes under this theme. Here officially spring is started but still feels like
winter, in some place’s its already summer. Hope you might got why I am so
confused. Finally today morning decided to stick with summer foods, even though
few of my other seasonal foods are ready to post, I changed my mind.
Today its going to be watermelon kheer, one of the co
blogger who’s running Magic Mingle Challenge each month announced watermelon
and rice combination this month. I came across this combination of rice and watermelon in
a TV show (but not this recipe), I was wondering how it will taste? Now this announcement made me to
try this wonderful recipe, I had tough time to find watermelon here couple days
before only I found in store bought one and tried this.
Ingredients:
Basmati rice
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¼ cup
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Water
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¾ cup
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Watermelon juice
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1 ½ cup
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Coconut milk
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3 Tbsp
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Milk (optional)
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¼ cup
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Condensed milk
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3 Tbsp
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Cardamom powder
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¼ tsp
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Cashew nut
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1 Tbsp
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Ghee
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1 tsp
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Directions:
- Cut the watermelon, remove the seeds and dice into cubes. Now blend the cubes in a mixe or blender and strain the juice. Soak rice for 10 – 20 minutes.
- In heavy bottomed sauce pan, boil water and ½ cup of watermelon juice. When it starts to boil add rice and cook until it’s done.
- Reduce the heat and add condensed milk and coconut milk allow it to cook for another 2 minutes.
- Finally add the remaining watermelon juice and cardamom powder turn off the stove don’t allow for boiling.
- Heat ghee in another pan and roast the cashew nut and add to the kheer.
- Serve it warm or cold.
Note:
- I didn’t add milk if you need you can add when you are adding watermelon juice at the end.
- Instead of coconut milk you can also substitute milk.
- If you are sweet toothed add more sugar or condensed milk.
- This ratio yields 2 servings.
14 comments:
Such a creamy and delicious watermelon kheer, can have a huge bowl of this droolworthy kheer rite now.
Very nice..Just saw a cantaloupe rice pudding and this sounds good too.
Hey.. do we soak the rice in the juice or plain water?
Hey.. do we soak the rice in the juice or plain water?
Another innovative dish..very nicely thought!
Kheer with melon what a interesting twist.
Pallavi just soak in plain water.
Beautiful kheer. Just saw cantaloupe kheer and this one .
Lovely kheer , looks very delicious...
unimaginable, very beautiful and creamy texture
What an interesting kheer. Such an innovative idea
Watermelon definitely marks the begining of summer here and a kheer is an innovative idea to pair it with rice!
Its an inovative idea of cooking watermelon....
This thought came to me as well but couldn't guess how the flavor would affect the kheer and dropped the idea. Love the presentation.
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