Rice Flour Mini Balls Kheer

1^st prize awarded to Mrs. Radha Balu in

Indian Express Cookery Contest –

Rice preparations (veg) – 1997

Ingredients
 
Rice flour....1 cup
Sugar......1 cup
Milk.....1 cup
Coconut milk....1/2 cup
Cardamom powder....1/2 teaspoon
Cashewnuts....10
saffron...2 pinches
Ghee....5 Tblspoon
salt....1 pinch

Method:

To make rice flour:

Soak rice for one hour. Drain and dry for one house and grind it into fine powder in the mixer.

To make coconut extract:

Scrap coconut and add half cup of water and grind it in a mixer. Squeeze and strain the liquid. This is called coconut extract.

Take one cup of water in a vessel, add salt and ghee in it and boil. When it starts boiling, add the rice flour in it and stir it continuously for 5 minutes. Remove it from fire and make a soft dough. Make very small balls out of it about the size of a green peas.

Heat water equal to the measure of rice from balls, when it starts boiling, add half the amount of rice balls in it. Again, when it starts boiling add the remaining balls. Stir occasionally, often stirring will dissolve the balls.

After 15 to 20 minutes, add ½ cup of milk. After the balls are well-cooked, add sugar, coconut extract and remaining milk. Boil it for another 15 minutes and remove from fire. Add cardamom powder and saffron. Garnish with fried cashew nuts and raisins.