Kheer Indian Dish (Diwali Recipe)

Food takes a center stage during the Diwali celebration especially deserts and sweets. Food is used for entertainment, gifts for friends and family and also as religious offerings. It can also be given together with Diwali greetings or Diwali wishes. 

Amongst the numerous variety of Diwali delicacy, Kheer stands out as a distinctive luscious meal that is prepared by many during the festival.  It’s an Indian traditional dessert prepared in varied ways in different parts of India. 

This is how it is prepared;

Kheer Recipe

Ingredients

• ¼ cup of already washed and drained long grain rice
• 5 cups of milk
• 3 crushed cardamom seeds
• 5 gms of blanched and slivered almonds
• A dash of saffron threads soaked in warm milk
• 5 gms of skinned and chopped pistachio nuts
• 15 gms of sugar

Preparation

1. Boil the rice, cardamom and milk in a pan, till it simmers gently and becomes soft

2. Put the saffron, almonds, raisins and pistachio and let it cook for another 4 minutes

3. Stir in the sugar until dissolved completely

4. Remove from hit and let it cool for a while

5. Serve when warm or chilled

Other Diwali Delicacies

They include chickpea curry vegetable pulav and vegetable pulav. For more diwali recipes, click here.

Lapsi – (Diwali Recipe)

Diwali is one festival that is marked with fun and laughter.   The splendor and cheerfulness encountered during the five days of Diwali festival are unmatched by any other festival in the Hindu calendar.  Lights, crackers, diwali greetings and sweets are just but a few of the goodies that characterize this festival.

Diwali Sweet Delicacies

The types of sweets feasted on during Diwali are of a wide variety depending on taste and culture of different regions, such as in South India mysore pak and pongal are common while in the Northern parts of India Ladoos and Lapsi are common. Let us look at one of the special diwali recipes, Lapsi.

Lapsi Recipe

A sweet and easy to make dish that is, prepared during Diwali.  

Ingredients

• broken wheat,
• hot water,
• almond,
• sugar,
• raisins,
• cardamom
• powder and
• ghee

Preparation

1. Soak the raisins in water

2. Heat the ghee at a high temperature in a heavy pan, add wheat   then cook till pink-brown, then add hot water and cover partly at reduce heat

3. When the wheat is cooked and almost dry put on ghee, sugar and water then stir.

4. Cook for 10 minutes under low temperature, till the ghee  oozes  from the sides of the pan

Diwali celebration will surely be complete and sweeter with this Lapsi Recipe. Cheers!