Khira Gaintha Recipe (Kheer Puli)
Khira Gaintha is a very delicate and extremely elevating dessert that’s unique to Odisha. This consists of balls of rice flour dough soaked in reduced cardamom flavoured milk. The rice flour is cooked with water and then kneaded to form a dough, moulded into balls, and dropped into simmering milk cream.
Course : Dessert
Ingridients : 2 cups Rice flour
Water , as required
3/4 cup Sugar , evaporated
1 cup Milk
Salt , as required
1 tablespoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)
1/2 cup Fresh coconut , shredded
6 cups Milk
1/4 cup Cashew nuts , crushed
1/8 cup Whole Almonds (Badam) , crushed
Instructions To begin making the Khira Gaintha recipe, boil water in a pan. Add a teaspoon of oil and a teaspoon of salt to this.Now gradually and continuously add the rice flour to the water and keep stirring.Make sure there aren’t any lumps. Lower the flame, cover the pan with a lid and cook it for five minutes.Take this mixture and turn it on to a wide plate. Let it cool.Once it has cooled just enough knead it with your fingers so that it forms a ball.Make small balls and steam them. In an another deep pan boil the milk and evaporated milk.Simmer in low flame until milk thickens. Add the rest of the sugar, cardamom powder and heat the milk some more.Now one by one drop the rice balls into the boiling milk and continue stirring.You can make a paste with 1 tablespoon of rice powder and add it to the milk to thicken it.Add the coconut in the end along with slivered cashew and almonds. Serve it cool.Serve Khira Gaintha on its own as a delicious dessert after your satisfying meal.
Khira Gaintha Recipe (Kheer Puli)
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