Rice Kheer / Akki payasa

Servings: 3-4

Ingredients:

Content	Quantity	Comment
Small rice / broken rice	¼ cup
Water	½ cup
Jaggery / Sugar	¼ cup	More if you want more sweetness
Salt	A pinch
Milk	250 ml
Ghee	1 tbsp
Cashew nuts	1 tsp	Broken
Raisins	1 tsp
Cardamom powder	¼ tsp

Method:

Wash and soak rice in ½ a cup of water for 1-2 hours. Take 250ml of milk in a vessel, add the soaked rice and bring it to a boil. Lower the flame completely and add salt, jaggery / sugar, elaichi / cardamom powder and cook till jaggery dissolves and rice is soft. Keep stirring occasionally to avoid the rice from sticking to the bottom of the pan.

Heat ghee in a small pan, add the cashewnuts and raisins. Once the raisins are fluffy, remove and garnish the kheer.

Serve hot/cold/chilled.

Tip:

If the kheer turns hard after it is cold, you can boil a cup of milk and mix.