Motherhood completes a Woman. Won’t you all agree? The joy begins from the day you come to know that you are going to become a mother and you start to take care of yourself and the baby growing in you like never before. Till that time you never get to know that you are actually capable of that much responsibility. This is just the beginning, become a mother and you become a time management expert and a champion of sorts when it comes to patience.
The sleepless nights, putting up with the cries of the baby, walking the floor, changing diapers, improper meals at irregular intervals, nothing short of a bullet when it comes to speed to reach your baby at the slightest whimper…. The sacrifices are big but the reward is just incomparable to anything on earth when you look at your baby’s toothless first smile at you. That is the moment you will realize that you will move heaven and earth to ensure your baby’s happiness.
We, a group of bloggers came together to welcome baby Kavin… by doing a baby shower, Hearty congratulations to new mom Krithi. Welcome dear Kavin… and what a good choice of name… The Tamil word means beautiful or handsome I guess…
As we are coming to the end of the mango season, I chose this delicious kheer for the baby shower. My grandmother used to make this during the mango season which is loved by all of us at home. A whole meal in itself.
Mango Kheer / Mango Payasam
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 25 Minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- Mango, ripe – 1
- Raw rice – 1/4 cup
- Milk – 3 cups
- Sugar – 1/2 cup
- Condensed milk – 1/4 cup
- Cardamom – 2
- Cashew nuts – 10
- Raisins – 10
- Ghee – 2 tsp
Instructions:
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Wash rice and soak for 10 minutes. Pressure cook with 1 cup of milk for 3 whistles.
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Peel the mango and cube the fruit. Grind the mango cubes to a fine pulp.
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In a sauce pan bring the remaining 2 cups milk to a boil and cook till it is reduced to 1-1/2 cups.
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Add the mango puree, boiled rice, condensed milk, sugar, crushed cardamom and stir for 3-4 minutes.
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Heat a pan with ghee. Add the cashew nuts, raisins and roast over low flame till it becomes golden brown in color.
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Pour this over the kheer and take off fire.
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Serve it either hot or cold. Tastes best when served cold.
Notes:
- Do not use slightly sour tasting mangoes like “Rumani”. If you do the kheer will curdle.
- Banganapalli, Imam pasand, Alphonso works best for this kheer.
- As I used organic farm mango, I did not use saffron strands to add more color for the kheer.
- You can also use sago instead of rice while making this kheer.
- In case you do not have condensed milk, increase the sugar by another 1/4 cup.
Join my friends Priya Suresh, Priya Sreeram, Priya Mahadevan, Vardhini, PJ, Shama, Nupur Mehra, Melange [Dhuythi], Anu, Reva and Denise in wishing Krithi a happy motherhood.
wow..Nice gesture,Radhika..Congrats Krithi & mango payasam looks delicious!!
aww that’s so sweet!! such a delicious way to come into this world!
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yum…no better season and a good reason for this kheer…
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Yummy payasam. Looks very inviting.
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hmm paysam looks yummy o yummy….
Nice way to welcome baby kavin!lovely payasam
Wow!! So scrumptious!!
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Mouth watering 🙂
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first congrats for krithi…. really nice name cute master kavin…
Mango kheer s just awesome… hope kavin too grab this…
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Delicious kheer with lovely colour..
i love a good kheer, and this looks delish!
Love the bright yellow and soo delicious!
very sweet of you all to organise this virtual welcome.. mango payasam looks nice… but mostly i never get to try much wth mangoes as we end up eating it as a fruit itself…
A very sweet gesture by you guys…the kheer looks absolutely delicious.
motherhood has indeed changed us and for the better- yum looking kheer with the mango goodness
YUm and delicious kheer
The mango kheer is absolutely delicious and inviting.
beautiful kheer. i love your kind gesture.
wonderful gesture!congrats to the new mom……very nice mango payasam
Mango Kheer looks yummy and delicious dear..
Wow! The friendship we develop in the blogging world is so awesome.. great work you guys.. the kheer looks out of the world
yummy and delicious kheer 🙂
Brilliant stuff!
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Thank you for the welcome party Radhika.. I love mangoes, cudnt eat them much in pregnancy.. 🙂
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Congrats on the new domain Radhika!
Very sweet gesture, god bless the baby 🙂 …
Mango kheer looks yum!
Congratulations on the new website.
Congrats on moving to ur own domain.the kheer looks so yum too
looks very very delicious
I made this kheer and everyone in my family loved it. Yummy recipe 🙂
I made this kheer and everyone in my family loved it. Thanks for posting this yummy recipe.
@Bushra Vaseema Thanks a lot for trying out and happy to hear that all in your family loved it. Keep visiting.
How about using tin mangoes?Does it taste good?