Kheer Kamala By Kakali Biswas

When you are craving for sweets and have the penchant for whipping them up from ingredients lying in your pantry, you have a bowl full of love formally known as desserts.

 

Kakali Biswas: Corporate slave turned entrepreneur. Single parent. A wildlife enthusiast with passion for music and cooking.

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

  • 6-8 crushed cardamoms
  • 1 cup water  
  • 1/4 th cup sugar
  • 4 cups of milk
  • 3-4 tablespoons of milk powder (optional)
  • 1-2 saffron threads if you have
  • 3-4 crushed cardamoms
  • cashews or pistachios as garnish (optional)
  • 1 or 2 orange/s

Method:

  • For the chasni/sugar syrup: Take 1/4th cup sugar, add  1 cup water to it and 3-4 crushed cardamoms and put it in a pan to boil. Let it reduce to a thick syrup consistency .
  • Take about 4 cups of milk, add 3-4 tablespoons of milk powder (optional), 1-2 saffron threads (if you have it handy),  3-4 crushed cardamoms and put it to boil.
  • Keep stirring continuously so that the bottom does not stick to the pan.
  • Once it reduces, add from the sugar syrup, spoon by spoon, according to your sweetness preference and then take it down and let it cool.
  • Take one or two oranges depending on the amount of rabri. Peel, deseed and remove the outer skin and put them in the rabri.
  • That’s it, your kheer komola is ready !