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.
Originally posted 2010-08-09 02:14:45.
Instead of corn starch, wat is the substitute?
Divya, Sabudana powder or arrow root
Manjula,
Can I make this one day ahead of party?
Rajshree Waranashiwar,
Peach Phirni is good for 2-3 days refrigerated.
Hi Manjula,
Can I add cornflour instead of cornstarch?
Can I use rice flour instead of making a fine paste of rice?
Thanks….
is it important to add cornstarch? because if i don’t have it what do i use any offers
Hi Mrs Manjula,
I am a very big fan of your recipes more because you make it look very simple with easy to follow instructions. I would like to try your peach phirni recipe in a weeks time. When you say the rice should be ground to a fine texture, should it be in the consistency of coarse sooji?
Krithika,
Rice should be ground to the consistency of coarse sooji?
can we make plain phirni
Divya,
Do not add the peach every thig remain the same.
This was delicious plain. I made it the other day and just left out the peaches and cornstarch. Also I added a touch of vanilla extract just like in the rice puddings I usually make. However, I’d like to have it without next time so it tastes not so much like the same old one I make 😀 And instead of soaking my rice, I just ground my rice to a powder in my dry Vita Mix container and added it to my almond milk and cooked it all together. Thanks for all you do, Manjula!
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.