Dry Fruits Pudding...Fasting Dessert Recipe ( Mewa ki kheer )

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I am Sangeeta Agrawal and heartily welcome you at my food blog.

# "Mewa ki  Kheer" or "Dry Fruits Pudding"
is a very delicious and healthy dessert recipe that is specially made on religious festivals like "Janmashtami", "Navratri" etc. during fasting days when we avoid of eating any cereals like rice, wheat etc.

# It is a combination of milk, different dry fruits and sugar or khaand.
For a nice flavour.... cardamom powder and strands of saffron is added in it.

# Prep Time...10 minutes
# Cook Time...25 minutes
# Serving....4

# Ingredients For Dry Fruits Pudding...

1. Pure milk....500 gram
2. Fox nuts....1 cup ( 25 gram ) Makhana
3. Almonds....10
4. Cashews....10
5. Raisins.......1 Table spoon
6. Chironji......2 Table spoon
7. Sugar.....60 gram
8. Saffron......few strands ( kesar ke dhaage )
9. Cardamom powder....1/4 Tea spoon
10. For garnishing... Some chopped pistachios, almonds etc

# Method of Making....

1. Wash the pan well with water in which you are going to make pudding or kheer.It will avoid the milk from sticking to the bottom.
You can add 50 ml.water in the bottom and then pour the milk for Pudding.

2. Boil the milk on high flame.
As it starts boiling...sim the flame and let it boil for 3 minutes.

3. Mean while dry roast the fox nuts till crunchy for 5 to 7 minutes.

4. Then crush each makhana in 3 or 4 pieces with a weight or with hands.

5. Just add these crushed makhana in the boiling milk and mix them with a spoon so that they could set down in the milk.

6 Keep on stirring the Pudding within the intervals of 2 or 3 minutes.

7. Now keep ready all other dry fruits ....
Chop the almonds and cashews.
Clean the chironji and Raisins if any impurity is there.
Soak the saffron strands in 2 spoon milk and make the powder of 5 cardamoms.

8. Place all chopped and cleaned dry fruits in a tea strainer and wash them under running Water.
Then add them in the pudding and mix well and stir it.

8. Add saffron strands and sugar in the pudding and mix and stir it.

9. Cook it till 10 minutes and as it starts thickening...just off the flame.
Because after some time...It will be more thick due to fox nuts.
Total cooking time of dry fruits Pudding is 20 to 25 minutes in half liter milk.

10. Lastly add cardamom powder and stir it.

In this way, "delicious and nutritious dry fruits Pudding"  is ready to serve.

Before serving it.... garnish it with some  chopped almonds, pistachios, raisins and strands of saffron for a rich tempting look.

You can serve it hot or cold as taste.
You can enjoy it as chilled transferring in the refrigerator.

# Note....

1. "Mewa kheer" or "Dry Fruits Pudding" can be made with condensed milk and milk powder instantly but it is avoided in the fasting days by people.

2. You can add rose water or kevada jal in this pudding.
Again it is optional.

3. If your pudding has become very thick...Then adjust little more milk as needed.
The consistency of pudding should be neither thin nor thick.

Thanku Friends,
Thanks again for your precious concern.