Steel Cut Oats Kheer (Oats Pudding)

• Servings: 4-6
• Preparation time: 5 minutes.
• Frying time: 2 minutes.
• Cooking time: 30 minutes.
• Total time: 37 minutes.

I made “Steel Cut Oats Kheer (Oats Pudding)” is a nutritious and delicious dessert that offers a modern twist on traditional kheer. Nowadays steel cut oats recipes are trendy. I twisted this trendy millet into traditional  recipe. The kheer, rich and creamy texture, combined with poppy seeds, fresh coconut paste, milk and sugar, creating a luscious and satisfying. It can be  added into thali or served as a dessert after meal. It can be part of festival dishes or any other occasion.

Steel cut oats has a slightly chewy bite of the oats. The saffron adds a fragrance or  aromatic touch, while the nuts provide a delightful crunch and bursts of sweetness. This pudding is both satisfying and comforting, perfect for any festive occasion or as a wholesome dessert.

Ingredients:

• Steel cut oats: 1fist (60-70) gm.
• Ghee (clarified butter): 1 tablespoon
• Milk: 1 liter
• Khuskhus (poppy seed): 3 tablespoon
• Fresh coconut: 3-4 tablespoon
• Sugar: 50 gm (1serving spoon)
• Saffron: 1 pinch

Preparation:

1. Wash the steel cut oats, keep aside.
2. Grind poppyseed for a minute add fresh coconut, continue to grind for 1/2 minute, keep aside.

Method:

1. Put milk for boiling on one burner, on another burner heat ghee in a frypan (wok), add steel cut oats on medium low flame for couple of minutes or the moment some of oats begins to change colour, meanwhile your milk will get boiled, add boiled milk and stir.
2. Let it cook  for 20-25 minutes at low flame.
3. Add ground poppy seed and fresh coconut paste along with saffron, continue to cook for another 4-5 minutes or till required consistency appears (Stir it every 2-3 minutes).
4. Put-off the flame, add sugar.
5. Serve it in serving bowl; sprinkle thin slices of almond and pistachio.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Steel Cut Oats Kheer (Oats Pudding) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.