Thandai Flavoured Rice Kheer Recipe

Archana's Kitchen

August 8, 2019

1090 Ratings

Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 50 M|Total: 1h 0min

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Dessert

Cuisine:North Indian Recipes

Rice Kheer is an Indian desert which is made from rice, milk and sugar flavoured with cardamom powder and saffron. You can even use rose water or kewra water in this recipe.

Thandai is basically a milk based summer drink which is served on special days and festive occasions like Holi and Mahashivratri. Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer is prepared with a mixture of fennel seeds, almonds, poppy seeds, melon seeds, rose petals, black pepper, cardamom, saffron, milk and sugar.

Serve Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer as a dessert after your delicious meal of Dal Makhani, Sev Tamatar Ki Sabzi, Phulka and Palak Raita.

If you like the Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer recipe, you can also try other Kheer Recipes such as

Rice Kheer is an Indian desert which is made from rice, milk and sugar flavoured with cardamom powder and saffron. You can even use rose water or kewra water in this recipe.

Serve Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer as a dessert after your delicious meal of Dal Makhani, Sev Tamatar Ki Sabzi, Phulka and Palak Raita.

If you like the Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer recipe, you can also try other Kheer Recipes such as

Ingredients

Ingredients for Thandai Powder

1-1/2 Thandai Powder

Saffron strands, few

2 Basmati rice

2 Milk

Sugar, as required

4 Condensed Milk

1 Whole Almonds (Badam), chopped

1 Pistachios, chopped

1 Cashew nuts, chopped

Rose Petals, for garnishing

1 Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)

Mixed nuts, for garnishing, chopped

4 Milk

1 Whole Almonds (Badam), blanched and peeled

1 Cashew nuts

1 Pistachios

1 Poppy seeds

1 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds

1 Cinnamon Stick (Dalchini)

1/2 Whole Black Peppercorns

Instructions for Thandai Flavoured Rice Kheer Recipe

To begin with Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer, wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, drain the water and keep the rice aside.

Soak the saffron and thandai powder separately in lukewarm milk.

Powder the Thandai Powder ingredients - Almonds, Cashew nuts, Pistachios, poppy seeds, cardamom, cinnamon and whole black peppercorns into a coarse powder and keep aside.

The next step is to boil the milk. When it comes to a boil, reduce the flame and add the rice in the saucepan.

Keep stirring the kheer until it reduces to one-third of the original quantity. Once done, add sugar, milk-made, cardamom powder, chopped nuts, thandai milk and saffron. Mix everything well and cook the Thandai Kheer for 5 minutes more.

After 5 minutes, turn off the flame and garnish it with chopped nuts and rose petals.

Serve Thandai Flavored Rice Kheer as a dessert after your delicious meal of Dal Makhani, Sev Tamatar Ki Sabzi, Phulka and Palak Raita.