Desserts generally served after a meal but we can’t deny the fact that we all love a bowl full of sweetness anytime! Keeping a synch to this festive season let’s catch up with these two out-of-box kheer recipes. These healthy and at the same time delicious festive recipes will drool over your mind.  Serve them as after-the-meal sweet-dish as a part of a traditional platter, or stock up some, for the guests who like to arrive without a notice and you’re ready for the festivals!

Custard Apple Kheer

Ingredients

• 2 liters Purabi milk
• 3/4 th cup basmati rice, washed and soaked
• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 large custard apples (sharifa/sitafal), deseeded
• A handful of raisins
• A handful of cashew nuts, roughly chopped
• A handful of almonds, roughly chopped
• 2-3 green cardamoms, ground to a powder

Recipe:

• Bring the milk to a boil in a thick bottomed pan, by covering and cooking it on a high flame for about 10-15 minutes.
• Uncover the pan and reduce the milk by 10 to 15 percent by letting it simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add the washed and soaked basmati rice. Cover the pan and let the milk come up to a boil.
• Let the rice cook for 20 minutes on simmer, till it thickens.
• Stir in the sugar and let the kheer cook on a gentle heat until the sugar dissolves, for 5 minutes.
• Next, add in the raisins, cashew nuts, almonds, and powdered cardamom. Mix well.
• Add in the deseeded sharifa, stir and take off the flame after 30 seconds.
• Serve hot or cold!

Apple Rabdi

Ingredients

• 3 Medium Apples
• 1 Litre Purabi Milk
• 4 Tbsp Sugar
• 1/4 tsp Green cardamoms
• 8-10 Almonds (blanched), sliced
• 8-10 Pistachios (blanched), sliced

Recipe

• Pour milk in a broad vessel and bring to a boil. Simmer till reduced to half the original quantity.
• Add sugar and cook on low heat, stirring continuously.
• Peel and grate two apples. Add the grated apples to reduced milk and mix.
• Cook for three to four minutes. Add cardamom powder, almonds and pistachios.
• Pour into a serving dish. Thinly slice the remaining apple. Arrange the slices all around the dish. Serve hot or cold.

Fresh Fruit Rabri

Ingredients

• Purabi Milk 1 liter
• Sugar 1/2 cup or less
• Cardamom powder 2 pinch
• Kiwi ½ cup
• Orange(pieces) ¼ cup
• Apple(pieces) ½ cup
• Banana(pieces) ¼ cup

Recipe

• Boil 1 liter milk until it is reduced to ½ liter comes to thick consistency.
• Add sugar and boil again until it is thick.
• Add cardamom powder and mix it, switch off flame, later transfer into a bowl and allow it cool.
• Place in refrigerator until it is chilled.
• Remove apple peel and cut into pieces and place in water.
• Take a bowl, add kiwi, orange, apple, banana and on its top pour this rabri mixture and mix nicely.
• Serve chilled.

Tip: You can add khoya if want a thick consistency.