Rice | Ayesha Jamal

Sweet rice pudding is a wonderful dessert that is made from minimum ingredients and is therefore uncomplicated. I loved it as a kid and still adore it at 18. P.s Its so easy to make yet tastes so amazing especially when garnished with almonds and crushed cardamom.And since I like to celebrate my lazy days with minimum effort and lovely food, I am super infatuated with this dessert 😛

Ingredients:

2.5 litre milk
1/4 kg rice
15 cardamom crushed
300 g white granulated sugar
15- 20 almonds for garnishing (Crush half of them)

How to go about it

Soak rice in 2 cups water for 1.5 hrs
After having soaked them for 1.5 hrs, blend them in a blender(along with the water in which they were soaking)
Bring the milk to boil in a large saucepan
Put blended rice into the boiling milk. Stir for 5-7 minutes to incorporate rice into milk.(Stirring is important as the mixture can get stuck to the bottom of the pan)
Reduce heat levels. Leave this mixture to simmer for 1 1/4 hr. HOWEVER keep stirring on regular intervals all this while, to prevent sticking and burning.
When the rice and milk mixture has reached thick almost homogeneous consistency, add sugar and stir to incorporate it.
Put crushed cardamom and almonds into it. Stir.
Pour the mixture into pudding bowls.
let it cool in fridge for 1 hour or more.
Garnish it with whole almonds.
Serve.