Gulabi Firni

It’s a North India dessert made of milk & rice. It is very well known for it’s variety of rice puddings like payasam. But firni is a little different from all other desserts.

In this dessert, rice is soaked, ground into paste then cooked with milk. I have added rose water to further enhance the taste of exotic Indian dessert.

Basically it is the part of mughlai cuisine. Traditionally it is plain dessert served with some nuts.

I hope you are all surely going to love this firni and will cherish it for a life time.

Ingredients

Basmati Rice – 1/2 cup

Milk – 1 ltr

Sugar – 1 1/2 cups

Rose water – 4 tsp

Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp

Crushed Pista – 1 tsp

Fried cashew – ¼ cup

Water – ½ cup

Method

Soak the basmati rice in half a cup of water for about an hour. Then grind it into a smooth paste and keep it aside.

In pan heat milk, then add sugar. Stir the milk frequently. Add rose water and keep stirring for 3 minutes.

Now add the rice paste to the boiling milk, keep stirring continuously to avoid lumps.

Keep stirring the milk for another 10 min on the low flame, till the mix starts thickening.

Let it boil another 5 min, keep stirring on low flame. Now turn off the flame and sprinkle cardamom powder. Mix well.

Let it cool to room temperature. Keep stirring occasionally.

Then transfer this firni in to bowl and refrigerate at least for an hour.

Garnish with crushed pistas & fried cashews.