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chaler payesh /bengali rice kheer
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Chaler Payesh / Bengali Rice Kheer

5 from 6 votes
Chaler Payesh is a popular, delicious and  creamy dessert from Bong community. Gobindobhog rice is cooked in milk and sweetened with sugar and garnished with dry fruits. 
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 6 people
Course: Dessert, traditional sweets
Cuisine: Bengali, Indian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups milk
  • 4 tablespoon gobindobhog or basmati rice
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 +1 teaspoon ghee
  • cashew
  • almond
  • 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder

Method
 

  1. Wash the rice and soak in water for fifteen minutes.
  2. Put the milk in a thick bottom pan and keep it to boil. Put bay leaf in it. 
  3. Once it boils, discard the water from the rice, smear it with ghee and put in the milk.
  4. Let cook on a low flame. Keep stirring in between.
  5. Once the rice is fully cooked and soft, add sugar. Cook for three minutes.
  6. Add cardamom powder and remove from flame.
  7. Roast the nuts in ghee and garnish it.

Notes

  • Gobindobhog rice is usually used here, if it is not available use basmati rice.
  • Soak the rice for atleast fifteen minutes.