Peach Phirni (Rice Pudding)
August 9th, 2010 filed under Desserts, Gluten Free
Peach phirni is a delicious creamy eggless pudding. Traditionally phirni is made with rice, milk and sugar. Adding peach gives a wonderful creamy smooth texture.
Recipe for 8
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup rice
- 3 cups of milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 15 oz can of unsweetened sliced peaches
- 1/2 teaspoon corn starch
- 1/8 teaspoon cardamom powder
- For garnishing:
- 1 tablespoon sliced almonds
- Few slices of canned peaches
- Few mint leaves
Method
- Wash rice and soaks it for fifteen minutes or more.
- Drain the water and blend rice to a fine texture, adding just enough milk as needed to blend. Keep aside.
- Drain the syrup from can peaches. Keep 4 slices of peach aside for garnish.
- Puree the remaining peaches with corn starch. Keep aside.
- Boil the milk on medium high heat and let it simmer until milk reduces to about 2 cups. After milk comes to boil it should take about 8 minutes.
- Take about 1/4 cup of hot milk and mix it with rice paste.
- Add rice solution to the boiling milk slowly and keep stirring continuously, making sure rice does not become in lumps and milk does not burn on the bottom of the pen.
- Cook until milk has reduced to about half in volume and rice is cooked.
- Next add the sugar and cardamom powder, cook for about 4 minutes on low medium heat. Turn off the heat.
- just after turning off the heat add the peach puree gently with cooked rice.
- Shift the phirni to the serving bowl and garnish with almond, and peach slices.
- Let it sit in refrigerator for few hours. Serve chill
Variations
There are so many delicious variations to this dish! Instead of peaches try making this dish using fresh mango, guava, passion fruit puree.
Dear Manjula Aunty,
I tried this recipe and it came out awsome and very tasty.
Thanks a lot for this recipe.
with regards
The recipe below the video calls for 1/3 cup sugar, while you mention 3/4 cup sugar in the video. Though it does look like you have used 3/4 cup sugar, please let me know for sure so that when I make the dish it does not end up being too sweet or less. Thanks.
Nimak,
Sorry it should be 3/4 cup sugar.
Hi Manjula Aunty,
Can i use rice powder (flour) instead of grinding raw rice?? Thanks
hi manjula i watched you recipe of how to make roti its very nice i learned the simple steps thanks to you….i used to do but mine rarely pop up…i will try your technique and see…your website is top…coz we can watch demonstration….
Lovely recipie..! Can i make this with fresh peaches instead of canned ones..? What would be the quantity of peach puree then..? pls advise.thnks.
Hi
I tried this recipe in the same way u posted but with just 8 0z of peaches, still the taste was very gud..It was awesome..Thanks for the recipe..
A very nice innovation of a classic dish.
I love the color a lot!
It sounds good, should taste good.
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Madam can you post bengali sweet cham cham??
Excellent recipe. Just 1 question. Should the rice be ground really fine ? Please answer.
Akanksha,
Rice should be grounded fine.
Tried it, really very very tasty. Thanks a lot.