Garlic Foxnut Kheer. A healthy dessert you can serve at dinner parties. Low in calories and light on the stomach, Foxnut is easily available. You can either eat it roasted, or make this.
Garlic Kheer or Benami Kheer has an interesting and intriguing history and dates back to the rule of the Mughals.
It was called benami because the ingredient in the kheer (garlic) was a secret!
I hope that grinding foxnuts doesn't change its nutritional value?
You can have Garlic Foxnut Kheer using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Garlic Foxnut Kheer
- Prepare 1 litre of Milk.
- Prepare 2 of Garlic medium sized cloves.
- It's 5 tbsp of Sugar.
- Prepare 8 - 10 of Almond blanched, peeled and sliced.
- You need 1/2 tsp of Green cardamon powder.
- You need 5-6 of Saffron threads.
- Prepare 10-15 of Foxnuts.
- You need 3 tbsp of White vinegar.
However, I found it curious you hated the foxnuts your mother gave you and then you give us your mother's. Learn about the various types of cholesterol and how garlic can help lower your cholesterol. Large scientific boards make several recommendations about garlic dosage. Garlic kheer can be prepared by two different methods.
Garlic Foxnut Kheer instructions
- Peel the garlic pods and slice them..
- Heat two cups water in a pan. Add one tablespoon vinegar in it..
- Add sliced garlic in it. Boil it three times..
- Every time you boil it, discard old water and fill the pan with fresh water so that get rid of garlicky and vinegar flavour..
- Heat milk in a pan..
- Add sugar and garlic in it. Stir well and reduced to half..
- Soak saffron in milk and keep aside..
- Dry roast foxnuts in a pan. Grind it into a fine powder..
- Add this powder into milk and cook for five mins..
- Add saffron milk, green cardamon powder and sliced almond in it. Mix well..
- It's ready. Serve hot or cold..
In the North it is known as lahsun ki kheer Garlic kheer is a sweet Rajasthani traditional dish. Nowadays it remains a famous street dish in Delhi. Roasted Makhana (Foxnuts) ~ Spicy, crunchy and super easy Roasted Phool Makhana (puffed lotus seeds/fox nuts) for Navratri fasting/vrat, great guilt-free, gluten-free. Kheer, derived from the Sanskrit word ksheer for milk and kshirika for any dish cooked with milk (ref. Makhana (foxnuts) and badam (almonds) are the heroes of this dish.