Saturday 29 October 2016

Kheer Indian rice pudding in Redmond Multi Cooker


The Diwali celebrations span over 4 days and each day we are enjoying delicious Indian desserts and sweets. One of my families favourite dessert is Kheer, this is an Indian rice pudding that is flavoured with cardamom, saffron, almonds and pistachios.  Although the rice pudding ingredients are only a few, to make authentic Kheer is a laborious task where milk and rice are cooked on a low heat and stirred regularly to stop the milk from scorching. Its one of those dishes that to make it creamy it needs to be slow cooked. It can take anything up to 2 hours to get the milk to reduce and the pudding to get rich and creamy. As much as I love rice pudding I found this task of watching over the pan really time consuming that is until my new kitchen friend arrived this Diwali in the form of a Redmond slow cooker.



I love the compact design of my Redmond multi cooker RMC-M451OE and its sleek controls. It has 13 automatic programmes and 27 manual controls making it easy to create a large selection of delicious recipes with minimum effort.





Making rice pudding in the slow cooker was simple and I did not have to watch it like a hawk like I needed to on the stove top. I put all the ingredients into the pot and set the cooker on multi cook for one and half hours. I did give the rice pudding an occasional stir 2-3 times just to make sure all was well.
The result was the creamiest tastiest rice pudding we have ever eaten made with very little effort.

To see how I created my delicious rice pudding you can read the recipe below. The recipe can also be make on the stove top, but care must be taken to stir the milk and rice frequently so that it does not scorch.









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Kheer Indian Rice Pudding
Creamy rich Rice pudding with aromatic Indian flavours garnished with saffron, almonds and pistachios.
Ingredients:
  • 100 g Short grain rice
  • 1150 ml Full cream Milk
  • 200 g Sweetened Condensed Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Cardamom powder
  • Few strands Saffron
  • 10 Almonds cut into slivers
  • 10 Pistachios cut into slivers 
Method:
1. Wash the rice and drain it . Next add it to the slow cooker bowl with the milk and condensed and cook the rice pudding on multi setting for 1.5 hours.
2. Stir the rice intermittently 2-3 times.
3. After the cooking time is complete, the milk should thickened and rice should be fully cooked resulting in a rich creamy rice pudding.
4. Stir in the cardamon powder and spoon the rice pudding into serving bowls, garnish with slivers of almonds and pistachio nuts and saffron strands. Kheer -Rice pudding can be served warm or cold.
Details
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: Serves 8


I was sent the Redmond Multi Cooker to try out , all the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own.

On this second day of Diwali I would like to wish all my simplyfood readers a very Happy Diwali or Happy holidays for those who don't celebrate this festival. Thank you to all your regular visits and comments that truly inspire me to create recipes and share them here.

19 comments:

  1. I love rice pudding in my slow cooker, it's real comfort food :)

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  2. Happy diwali to you Nayna. I like Kheer over and above our English rice pudding so great to see a recipe

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  3. This looks delicious! I couldn't live without my slow cooker at this time of year :)

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  4. I love rice pudding, but have never tried it with short grain rice. I'm going to try and make this in our slow cooker for sure!

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  5. I've always wanted to make my own rice pudding. This looks so delicious and tasty.

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  6. This looks lovely! I love that you shared the story behind the dish too

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  7. This looks absolutely delicious!! I regularly make rice pudding in the winter but I've never actually thought to make it in the slow cooker before- great idea! xxx

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  8. I would love to try this rice pudding recipe. Looks very tasty.

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  9. This looks lovely, kheer is one of my husbands favourite desserts

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  10. This sounds lovely and looks amazing! I love that its cooked in a slow cooker!!

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  11. I'd love to try Kheer. The end result looks delicious! I've come to love my Crock Pot because it makes cooking so much easier. The traditional way of making Indian rice pudding sounds very time consuming and tedious, so I certainly see the appeal of using your slow cooker. Sometimes technology really does make life easier for us!

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  12. I had a gorgeous Indian dessert the other day in a restaurant if this is as good then I need a slow cooker x

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  13. This Kheer sounds like a wonderful extra-special rice pudding. And the multi cooker makes it easy!

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  14. Brilliant idea to use the multicooker for rice pudding! And I love that you used condensed milk - that stuff is heaven!!

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  15. I absolutely love the idea of this! Yum yum to rice pudding might have to make some.

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  16. Happy Diwali Nayna :) hope you and you're family enjoyed the celebrations. This kheer rice pudding sounds delicious! I grew up in the Middle East and we use cardamom, saffron, pistachios and almonds in a lot of our recipes so this sounds heavenly to me :)

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  17. I bet that's wonderful, Mr Glam would love it. GG

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  18. Oh wow Nayna, your rice pudding sounds heavenly with the condensed milk and spices. That multi-cooker sounds pretty fab too.

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  19. I am a huge fan of Kheer Indian Rice Pudding, I have a volunteer at work who always brings me some in x

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