Khira Gaintha

INGRIDENTS:

• Khira ( Milk ) – 1.5 ltr
• Khira Chaula ( Rice ) – 150 gm
• Nadia (Coconut ) – ¼ of a coconut
• Chini ( Sugar ) -125gm
• Gheea (Ghee ) -3-4 tbsp
• Bada aleicha ( Big cardamom ) – 6 pcs
• Luna ( Salt ) – to taste

• PREPARATION:STEP WISE                                                                                                                     
  • To start with, soak the rice for 1 hour, then wash it properly and grind into a fine and thick paste.
  • Take ½ cup of the paste and keep aside.
  • Make small cubes of the coconut.
  • Crush the big cardamom seeds and make a powder out of it..
  • Take a deep pan add water(proportionally equal to the amount of the rest rice paste) to it.
  • Add sugar (50grm) and salt to taste to the above water and boil it.
  • When it starts boiling again, put the rice paste and stir it for 10-15 mins on a low flame and make a fine dough out of it.
  • Wait till the dough cools down to the room temperature, kneed the dough with ghee to make it softer.
  • Make small balls out of the dough and keep aside.
  • Boil milk in a deep pan, add sugar (75 grm), coconut cubes, cardamom powder, and mix it well.
  • Add the prepared rice balls to the boiled milk and cook it for 10-15 minutes.
  • Add salt to taste to the remaining ½ cup rice paste kept aside, add it to the above boiled milk and stir it properly.
  • Boil the above mixture for 3 minutes on a lower flame and serve it.