Healthy Recipe: Rice and moong dal kheer

Here's how to make healthy and tasty rice moong dal kheer at home (South-Indian style).

Be it a puja, get-together or any festival, the celebrations are incomplete without a kheer. If it is healthy and tasty, then what else do you need to satiate your sweet tooth after a stomach full of delicious meal. So this season, try your hands at not just rice kheer but rice and moong dal kheer. Here is the detailed recipe about how to make rice moong dal kheer at home. You can also try this healthy oats and carrot kheer recipe.

Ingredients:

Rice - 1/2 cup

Yellow split Moong dal - 1/4 cup

Milk - 2 cups

Jaggery - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/2 teaspoon

Ghee - 2 teaspoon

Water - 3 cups

Saffron strands - Pinch (soaked in some warm milk)

Cashewnuts - 1 teaspoon

Almonds - 1 teaspoon

Raisins - 1 teaspoon

Steps to prepare:

1. In a pan, add a teaspoon of ghee. Add cashew nuts and saut till it turns light golden. Take it on a plate. Now add raisins and fry for a minute. Now add finely chopped almonds and saute till it turns light golden in colour and add it to the same plate.

2. Now, add moong dal and rice in the same pan and saute till it turns light brown in colour. You can skip this procedure if you do not like it. Add moong dal and rice in a cooker and cook with 2 - 3 cups of water up to 3 whistles so that it turns soft. Use a medium flame to cook and once done, leave it idle till the pressure comes down naturally.

3. In a pan, add the remaining ghee and add cooked rice and moong dal. To this, add jaggery powder and allow it to dissolve by cooking on low flame. Do mix it intermittently. Once it gets dissolves and the mixture turns slightly thin in consistency, add cardamom powder and saffron. Cook for a minute or two and remove from flame.

4. Add fried cashew nuts, raisins and almonds. Allow it to cool to room temperature for few minutes. Now add milk (which is boiled and cooled off) and mix properly. Rice moong dal kheer si ready. Serve chilled. Also read about the healthy recipe - sabudana kheer.

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