| Procedure
Place a thick-bottomed vessel on stove-top and heat. Add ghee to melt. Add chopped dates and almond powder to the melted ghee. Fry for about five minutes on low heat. Add milk. On medium heat, simmer, stirring in between, until the milk-dates-almond mixture thickens and reduces in volume from 2 cups to about one to one and half cups. It takes about ten minutes to cook. Stir the cardamom and nutmeg powders. Turn off the heat. Serve into bowls in small quantity and enjoy. It tastes good warm or cold.
Note: Dates added are extremely sweet so no extra sugar was needed for the kheer. Add sugar or jaggery if needed as per your taste. While the milk heats up you need to keep stirring so that the milk doesn’t stick to the bottom – a stir every two minutes or so is fine.
Serves 2 |
