Green Pea’s Kheer

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Greenpea’s Kheer
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Back in 2017 when we had Ganesh idol pooja at home, all relatives and friends were invited for food, we used to have a food feast. All the ladies of the family use to come together and prepare their own special dishes. On such occasion I selected fusion desert ” Green Pea’s Kheer”.This Kheer brought a WOW smile on the faces of all persons present. They were curious to know the recipe.

Green Pea’s Kheer

Time for preparation : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 20 Minutes
Total time : 35 minutes
Serves – 4

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Green peas
2 cup Milk
1/2 cup Sugar
2tbsp Ghee
6-8 Almond flakes
2 tbsp vanilla Custard powder
1/2 tsp of cardamom powder
1 tsp of milk masala

Instructions:
1) Grind green peas into a coarse paste.
2) Take a deep pan, add ghee and sauté the green peas paste till it is cooked.( 5-7 minutes on medium flame)
3)In parallel boil the 1 1/2 cup milk in a bowl and add sugar, cardamom powder and dry fruit powder. Add this milk to cooked green peas paste and boil again. This gives beautiful natural green colour of peas to the kheer.
4) Take a 1/2 cup of cold milk and add custard powder to it and mix well, add this cold milk to boiling milk of green peas and stir continuously till milk is condensed.(3-4 minutes)
5) Transfer the Green peas Kheer to serving bowl.
6) Garnish with Almond flakes and saffron and serve hot or chilled

Note :
1) Sugar can be adjusted as per taste.
2) Custard powder can be adjusted as per how much thick you want the kheer to be.
3) If you are serving hot add 2 tbsp of custard powder and if you are serving chilled then add 1 tbsp of custard powder.
4) You can adjust the thickness of Kheer by adding little more milk.

Health benefits:

1) It is a source of vitamin k
2) It helps to improve digestive system.
3) Better heart health and prevents the growth of cancer cell.