Sweet Corn Kheer Recipe:
Sweet corn kheer is a variation to the regular rice kheer. This quick and easy sweet corn kheer is prepared by just grinding sweetcorn kernels and then cooking them in the milk until thick.
You can serve this incredibly delicious kheer hot or chilled as an after-meal dessert or anytime time you crave for something sweet.
Health benefits of sweet corn:
- Sweet corn is a good source of dietary fibre, vitamins, and antioxidants in addition to minerals in proper proportions.
- Sweetcorn is also a good source of the phenolic flavonoid antioxidant, ferulic acid. * ferulic acid plays a vital role in preventing cancers, ageing, and inflammation in humans.
- Corn also contains good levels of some of the valuable B-complex group of vitamins such as thiamin, niacin, pantothenic acid, folates, riboflavin, and pyridoxine.
- Corn also contains healthy amounts of some essential minerals like zinc, magnesium, copper, iron, and manganese.
Sweet corn kheer
Materials
- 1 cup sweet corn
- 500 ml Full cream milk
- 1/2 cup Sugar to taste
- 1 tablespoon Ghee
- 2-3 tablespoon chopped dry fruits as per your choice
- 2 green cardamom pods (elaichi)
- A few strands of saffron
- 1 tablespoon almonds
- 1 tablespoon pistachios
Instructions
Preparation:
- Wash the sweet corns carefully.
- Grate or blend the sweet corns into a fine paste/pulp/cream.
- Place milk on flame for boiling.
- soak the saffron strands in 1 tablespoon hot milk.
- Soak the almonds and pistachio in a bowl of hot water for around 15 minutes. Drain the water and peel the skin of soaked almonds. Slice the peeled almonds and set aside.
- Crush the cardamom seeds to a fine powder using a mortar and pestle.
Method:
- Heat ghee in a Heavy bottom pan and allow it to melt.
- Add sweet corn paste/puree in a pan and cook on low-medium flame.
- Keep stirring continuously.
- When there is a change in colour and ghee starts separating from the paste.
- Reduce the flame and add the milk. Mix well. Once it comes to a boil, reduce the flame and let this simmer till the quantity of milk is reduced to almost half.
- Within 10 minutes, when kheer gets thick in consistency and is ready.
- Add the sugar and mix it well.
- Now add saffron strands and mix it well.
- Finally, add the sliced almonds and pistachio. Mix well and cook for another minute.
- Turn off the flame.
- Sweet corn kheer is now ready to be served warm or chilled.
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Notes
Sweet Corn Kheer Recipe with step by step pictures:
Preparation:
- Wash the sweet corns carefully.
- Grate or blend the sweet corns into a fine paste/pulp/cream.
- Place the milk on flame for boiling.
- soak the saffron strands in 1 tablespoon hot milk.
Soak the almonds and pistachio in a bowl of hot water for around 15 minutes. Drain the water and peel the skin of soaked almonds. Slice the peeled almonds and set aside.
Crush the cardamom seeds to a fine powder using a mortar and pestle.
Method:
- Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan and allow it to melt.
- Add sweet corn paste/puree in a pan and cook on low-medium flame.
- Keep stirring continuously.
- When there is a change in colour and ghee starts separating from the paste.
- Reduce the flame and add the milk.
- Mix well.
- Add ground cardamom.
Reduce the flame and add the milk. Mix well. Once it comes to a boil, reduce the flame and let this simmer till the quantity of milk is reduced to almost half.
- Within 10 minutes, when kheer gets thick in consistency and is ready.
- Add the sugar and mix it well.
- Now add saffron strands.
- Mix well.
- Finally, add the sliced almonds and pistachios.
- Mix well and cook for another minute.
- Turn off the flame
- Sweet corn kheer is now ready to be served warm or chilled.
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