Chakhao Kheer... The Royal Forbidden Rice Pudding.
What can be more tempting than The Forbidden rice kheer. The aromatic black rice which turns deep purple when cooked. Food for the royals and which had once been forbidden for the masses by the ancient emperors of China. This black rice is local to the state of Manipur and is know as Chakhao. In Manipur Chakhao is generally served as dessert .. plain cooked along with the accompanyment of the normal white rice kheer during traditional lunch or dinner. It is also served cooked as kheer or simply plain cooked with sugar sprinkled on top. Today as my first post on my food blog am going to present before you my Chakhao Kheer recipe. I hope I am able to tempt you with the aroma of my hot n steaming Forbidden Rice Kheer to visit my blog regularly and commit the sin of breaking all the rules of your diet regime and to try out my recipes. By the way Chakhao happens to have got high nutritive values and would be beneficial for your and your family's health. So, it's a sin worth commiting. Go ahead and break the rules and enjoy this delicious royal dessert.
Ingredients : -
* 1 Cup Chakhao Rice
* 1 Litre Milk
* 1/2 Litre water
* 2/3 Cup sugar(or according to taste)
* 1 Tbs Desi ghee(Clarified butter).
Method: -
Wash the rice and keep soaked in water for about an hour. Drain it and in a thick bottomed pan and put to boil along with the milk and water. Once it starts to boil slow down the gas and let it simmer as you keep stirring it in between so as it won't boil over or stick at the bottom. Let it cook for about half an hour and then add the sugar. Keep stirring and continue to cook on slow fire until you get the right consistency of the kheer. Add the ghee and cook for 2 or 3 minutes more. Your kheer is done. Do not add any dry fruits or cardamom as it has got a nutty flavour of it's own and is very very aromatic. Adding cardamom would hamper the original fragrance of rice.
Serve hot or serve cold. You will definitely enjoy it either way.
Please do not forget to leave a comment after you try it out.
Enquiries about the rice are also welcome.
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| Chakhao.. The black royal forbidden rice. |
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| Chakhao Kheer |
Ingredients : -
* 1 Cup Chakhao Rice
* 1 Litre Milk
* 1/2 Litre water
* 2/3 Cup sugar(or according to taste)
* 1 Tbs Desi ghee(Clarified butter).
Method: -
Wash the rice and keep soaked in water for about an hour. Drain it and in a thick bottomed pan and put to boil along with the milk and water. Once it starts to boil slow down the gas and let it simmer as you keep stirring it in between so as it won't boil over or stick at the bottom. Let it cook for about half an hour and then add the sugar. Keep stirring and continue to cook on slow fire until you get the right consistency of the kheer. Add the ghee and cook for 2 or 3 minutes more. Your kheer is done. Do not add any dry fruits or cardamom as it has got a nutty flavour of it's own and is very very aromatic. Adding cardamom would hamper the original fragrance of rice.
Serve hot or serve cold. You will definitely enjoy it either way.
Please do not forget to leave a comment after you try it out.
Enquiries about the rice are also welcome.
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