This brown rice vegan kheer is to die for

When a delicious dessert is packed with nutrition then you can eat away without any guilt, like this vegan kheer recipe

Brown rice vegan kheer

No Indian celebration is complete without kheer. This simple sweet dish can be made with rice, ragi, sago, lentils, vermicelli and even semolina. It is prepared by slow cooking the grains or lentils in sweetened milk and then garnished with nuts.

This healthy version of rice kheer uses brown rice and jaggery, instead of sugar. Brown rice is rich in fibre and is a good source of manganese and selenium. Jaggery is rich in iron and is definitely a better choice than sugar. This is a vegan version of kheer made by replacing dairy with coconut or almond milk.

Ingredients

  • Brown rice – 2½ tbsp
  • Jaggery – ⅓ cup
  • Coconut or almond milk – 2 cups
  • Cashew nuts, pistachio, almonds –1 tbsp each, roasted and chopped
  • A pinch of ground cardamom powder

Preparation method

  1. Grind brown rice coarsely like rava and soak it in ¼ cup of water for 1 hour. Cook brown rice until soft.
  2. Dissolve jaggery in little water and filter it to remove impurities.
  3. Combine milk and cooked rice in a pan and cook on low flame, keep stirring to avoid curdling. Do not boil the milk.
  4. Add jaggery water, cardamom powder, mix well and switch off the flame.
  5. Garnish with nuts and serve either warm or cold.

Note: Jaggery water should be at room temperature.


This vegan kheer recipe was first published in the January 2014 issue of Complete Wellbeing.

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Padhu
Padhu is the author of Padhuskitchen.com which focuses on Indian vegetarian recipes. All the recipes on her website are tried and tested to perfection by her. Her recipes are healthy and made very simple with easy-to-follow cooking instructions and pictures, motivating anyone to cook.

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