Makhana kheer is a pudding which is specially made during Navratri festival in North India. It is made with puffed lotus seeds which is cooked in milk. It is a simple pudding and you can serve it either warm or chilled. I usually refrigerate it for few hours if I’m serving it as a dessert. You can make Makhana kheer in flat 20 minites and usually loved by everyone..
Makhana Kheer
Recipe Type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
A delicious pudding made with puffed lotus seeds cooked in milk with cardamom flavour!
Ingredients
- Whole Milk – 4 cups
- Sweetened Condensed Milk – 150 gm
- Makhana/Puffed lotus seeds – 2 cups
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
- Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
- Few Broken cashews and few raisins for garnishing
Instructions
- Add 1 tsp ghee in frying pan and toss cashews and raisins for a minute and keep it aside in a bowl for garnishing.
- Add 1 tsp ghee in frying pan and toss lotus seeds for a minute and crush it. Keep it aside in a separate bowl.
- Add milk in pan and when it starts boiling, add lotus seeds and mix it well. Let it cook for 5-6 minutes on low flame.
- Now add condensed milk and let it cook for few minutes. Transfer the content in a bowl and add cardamom powder. Garnish it with cashews and raisins before serving.
- You can serve it either hot but I usually refrigerate it for few hours and serve it chilled.
Notes
You can also use 1/4 cup of sugar in place of condensed milk. Adjust sweetness according to your taste.
interesting..some days ago i saw a recipe of makhana raita on another ood blog..and now kheer..maybe ill try both together for a dinner 🙂
http://thelearningcookblogs.blogspot.in
Nice.