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Badam Kheer Recipe: Enjoy Festive Season with This Delicious & Super Healthy Sweet Dish

The celebration mode of New Year is on. Only one day left to enter into a brand new year along with new dreams, hope, and a new horizon. A little more love shower to your new year celebration dishes and greet your friends and family with this delicious and mouth-watering Badam Kheer recipe.

Pronami Chetia
Badam Kheer in the bowl
Badam Kheer in the bowl

The celebration mode of New Year is on. Only one day left to enter into a brand new year along with new dreams, hope, and a new horizon.  A little more love shower to your new year celebration dishes and greet your friends and family with this delicious and mouth-watering Badam Kheer recipe. It’s one of the most popular sweet dishes in India, almost across all the states. For any festival in India, kheer is a must, then why not for this celebration!!

‘ Kheer’ is also known as ‘Payas’ in Bengal and Assam while it’s known as ‘payasam’ in South Indian states.

Badam Kheer or Badam Payas Recipe-

Ingredients-

  • Peeling almonds or nuts or Kaju

  • Sugar

  • Milk

  • Cardamom

  • Saffron (not mandatory)

How to Make Badam Kheer?

Step by Step

  • Soaking, blanching and peeling almonds

  • rinse ¼ cup almonds (about 35 almonds) and add them in a bowl. Then pour ⅓ cup hot boiling water. Cover and keep aside for 30 to 40 minutes.

  • Then drain all the water.

  • Peel the almonds. You just need to press the skin and it comes out easily.

  • Take 3 to 4 of blanched almonds and slice them thinly.

  • Grinding Almonds for Badam Kheer

  • Add the remaining almonds in a grinder jar. Next, add ¼ to ⅓ cup milk. milk can be chilled or at room temperature.

  • Next, add 5 tablespoons sugar or add as required. For a less sweet taste, you can add 4 tablespoons sugar.

  • Next, add seeds from 4 green cardamoms.

  • Grind till smooth. The almonds should be ground very well to a smooth consistency. If there are coarse particles or chunks, then it can be irritating to the throat.

  • Making Badam Kheer

  • Take 2.5 cups of milk in a pan. Make sure that the pan is large enough so that the milk does not spill out while boiling.

  • Keep the pan on a low flame and begin to heat milk till it comes to a boil. Stir at intervals so that the milk does not scorch from the bottom.

  • Add 10 to 12 saffron strands.

  • Simmer on low flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Do stir at intervals.

  • Then add the almond paste.

  • Mix very well with a spoon.

  • Let the entire almond kheer come to a boil.

  • Switch off the flame. scrape the evaporated and dried milk at the sides of the pan and add them to the badam kheer.

  • You can serve badam kheer hot, warm or chilled. while serving garnish badam kheer with sliced almonds and a few strands of saffron. 

  • Enjoy!!!

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