Badam Kheer Recipe: Enjoy Festive Season with This Delicious & Super Healthy Sweet Dish

The celebration mode of New Year is on. Only one day left to enter into a brand new year along with new dreams, hope, and a new horizon.  A little more love shower to your new year celebration dishes and greet your friends and family with this delicious and mouth-watering Badam Kheer recipe. It’s one of the most popular sweet dishes in India, almost across all the states. For any festival in India, kheer is a must, then why not for this celebration!!

‘ Kheer’ is also known as ‘Payas’ in Bengal and Assam while it’s known as ‘payasam’ in South Indian states.

Badam Kheer or Badam Payas Recipe-

Ingredients-

• Peeling almonds or nuts or Kaju

• Sugar

• Milk

• Cardamom

• Saffron (not mandatory)

How to Make Badam Kheer?

Step by Step

• Soaking, blanching and peeling almonds

• rinse ¼ cup almonds (about 35 almonds) and add them in a bowl. Then pour ⅓ cup hot boiling water. Cover and keep aside for 30 to 40 minutes.

• Then drain all the water.

• Peel the almonds. You just need to press the skin and it comes out easily.

• Take 3 to 4 of blanched almonds and slice them thinly.

• Grinding Almonds for Badam Kheer

• Add the remaining almonds in a grinder jar. Next, add ¼ to ⅓ cup milk. milk can be chilled or at room temperature.

• Next, add 5 tablespoons sugar or add as required. For a less sweet taste, you can add 4 tablespoons sugar.

• Next, add seeds from 4 green cardamoms.

• Grind till smooth. The almonds should be ground very well to a smooth consistency. If there are coarse particles or chunks, then it can be irritating to the throat.

• Making Badam Kheer

• Take 2.5 cups of milk in a pan. Make sure that the pan is large enough so that the milk does not spill out while boiling.

• Keep the pan on a low flame and begin to heat milk till it comes to a boil. Stir at intervals so that the milk does not scorch from the bottom.

• Add 10 to 12 saffron strands.

• Simmer on low flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Do stir at intervals.

• Then add the almond paste.

• Mix very well with a spoon.

• Let the entire almond kheer come to a boil.

• Switch off the flame. scrape the evaporated and dried milk at the sides of the pan and add them to the badam kheer.

• You can serve badam kheer hot, warm or chilled. while serving garnish badam kheer with sliced almonds and a few strands of saffron. 

• Enjoy!!!

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