Rice Pudding

Total Time: 9 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 9 hrs Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1 cup raw rice
• 1 large egg
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup whole coconut, split
• 1 teaspoon cumin seed
• 2 tablespoons ghee
• 3 -5 cashews, for garnishing
• 2 tablespoons plain cadbury chocolate, melted,to garnish

Recipe

• 1 soak raw rice in water for 8 hours.
• 2 grate coconut.
• 3 finely blend it in a mixer with 1 cup of water.
• 4 sieve it.
• 5 your thick coconut milk is ready.
• 6 keep aside.
• 7 repeat the same procedure to get 3 more cups of diluted coconut milk.
• 8 finely blend the soaked rice with the thick coconut milk.
• 9 add 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
• 10 blend again till the rice batter is finely done.
• 11 add the remaining sugar, egg and 2 cups of diluted milk.
• 12 blend again.
• 13 pour the batter in a vessel.
• 14 the rice batter must be free-flowing in consistency.
• 15 if it is not, add a third cup of diluted milk.
• 16 mix well.
• 17 heat a large stainless steel vessel.
• 18 add 2 cups of water.
• 19 place a smaller vessel inside this larger vessel with a little water and cover the larger one with a lid.
• 20 grease 2 or 3 round elevated stainless steel plates with ghee.
• 21 when the water in the vessel heats up, place the greased plate over the smaller vessel.
• 22 pour the rice batter to the needed level.
• 23 close with a lid.
• 24 adjust the stove on low-medium heat.
• 25 after 10 minutes, the mixture will coagulate.
• 26 sprinkle few cumin seeds over it.
• 27 to check the cooked pudding, poke it with the tip of a spoon.
• 28 if the mixture doesn't stick to the spoon, the pudding is done.
• 29 remove the plate.
• 30 allow it to cool.
• 31 cut into desired shapes.
• 32 repeat the process using other plates.
• 33 note: avoid over-heating of pudding.
• 34 to attract little kids to this pudding, roast few cashewnuts in ghee.
• 35 garnish the plain pudding with these.
• 36 spill few drops of melted chocolate over it.
• 37 dig in!