The South Asian rice pudding, popularly known as kheer, is traditionally a celebration dessert made with plain milk and cardamom but why have the regular kheer or other snacks and desserts this Diwali when you can treat your tastebuds to chocolate kheer or oat coconut cookie?
Diwali or Deepavali, which translates as ‘a row of lights’, is one of the most significant of all Hindu festivals and is celebrated over a period of 5 days and marks the onset of winter and the beginning of all things new. Desserts are a main part of its puja and celebrations and while we continue to work from home amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, modernise the popular rice pudding, or kheer, with chocolate and move over regular snacks this Diwali by trying out these easy recipes of chocolate kheer and oat coconut cookies given below.
Chocolate Kheer
Ingredients for Kheer:
500 ml full cream milk
1 cup boiled rice
2 tbsp sugar, or to taste
2 elaichi – crushed
½ tbsp kewra jal
Ingredients for chocolate sauce:
200 gm cream (1 cup)
100 gm chocolate – chopped (1 cup)
Method:
Boil rice and milk in a heavy bottom kadhai. Add sugar and cook till thick and kheer consistency, mashing with the back of a kadchi. Cool.
Add kewra jal and crushed elaichi. For chocolate sauce, heat cream on low heat. Add chocolate and stir on low heat till a sauce is ready.
In a tall shot glass, pour some chocolate sauce. Allow to set for 5 minutes. Put a thick layer of cold kheer on it.
Finally put a thin layer of chocolate sauce on it. Serve cold.
Oat coconut cookies
