Recipe: Perfect Shahi Firni

Shahi Firni.

You can cook Shahi Firni using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Shahi Firni

1. You need 1/4 cup of Basmati Rice / Gobindovog rice powder.
2. It's 1 litre of full cream Milk (at room temperature).
3. You need of Cinnamon 1" piece.
4. Prepare of Cardamom 3/4 no (crushed / powdered).
5. It's of Sugar 3/4 cup or as per taste.
6. You need 1 pinch of Salt.
7. It's 1 tbs of Ghee / clarified butter.
8. It's of Cashew nut paste of 15 cashews.
9. You need 1/2 drops of Kewra water.
10. Prepare 1 drop of Rose water.
11. It's 1 drop of Yellow food colour.
12. Prepare of Kesar / saffron 9/10 threads (soaked in milk).
13. It's 1 tsp of Cornflour.
14. Prepare 3 tsp of Milk powder.
15. You need of Dry fruits almond -10-12 (sliced), cashews 10, raisins 10/12 (soaked in water).
16. It's of Terracotta bowls or ceramic bowls 4 no.

Shahi Firni instructions

1. First wash the terracotta bowls with water, drain and dry.
2. Take out 1 cup of milk in a bowl and mix the rice powder in it very well. The milk must be at the room temperature..
3. Boil the rest of the milk with the cinnamon.
4. When it's a little thick add the milk rice powder mixture to it and stir constantly so that no lumps form.
5. Add food colour and boil the rice.
6. When the rice is boiled and soft, add sugar, mix well and dissolve it, stir constantly.
7. Keep heating to thicken the milk some more, take some milk out of the pan and mix the cornflour and milk powder in it very well that no lumps form.
8. Add the separated milk mixture to the pan and mix everything very well.
9. Add Cashew paste to it and mix well.
10. Add ghee, kewra water, rose water, kesar and cardamom to it, cover it with a lid over low flame..
11. Then add the dry fruits and mix.
12. Cook for 4/5 mins over low flame.
13. When it's neither too runny nor too stiff, turn off the heat, pour the mixture in the terracotta bowls, cool down to the room temperature and keep them in the fridge for 2-3 hrs..