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Punjab · Dessert

Broken Rice Kheer

Traditional 12. Broken Rice Kheer recipe

🧺 Ingredients

• 960ml whole milk
• 40g broken rice (basmati rice pieces)
• 50g sugar
• 20ml ghee
• ½ tsp cardamom powder
• 20g cashews, fried
• 15g raisins, fried
• pinch saffron strands

👩‍🍳 How to make Broken Rice Kheer

1. Fry nuts (3 mins, medium heat): Heat ghee, fry cashews until golden, remove. Fry raisins until plump, set aside.
2. Fry rice (2 mins, medium heat): In remaining ghee, lightly fry broken rice until fragrant (visual cue: rice becomes slightly translucent, smells toasted).
3. Boil milk (2 mins, high heat): Pour milk, bring to rolling boil (visual cue: foam rises, bubbles appear).
4. Add rice (1 min): Stir in fried rice (visual cue: milk may rise again).
5. Simmer (25 mins, low heat): Cook on low heat, stirring frequently for 20-25 minutes until rice is completely soft (visual cue: rice pieces disintegrate, milk becomes thick and creamy, rice sediment visible).
6. Add sugar (2 mins, low heat): Mix in sugar, continue cooking for 2 minutes until dissolved.
7. Finish (1 min): Add cardamom powder, saffron, and fried nuts. Remove when consistency is thick yet pourable.

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