This is very new and very awesome to my world. Oats kheer hasn’t been my part of food life till now. It’s so simple and so, so sweetly good with 3 royal ingredients like oats, sugar and milk. But you know, oats wasn’t a regular one to be in my pantry earlier, do you remember masala oats recipe with which all the oats thing have started in my life?
When you crave for something sweet in lunch and have only little time to spend in the kitchen then this awesome oats kheer can fill in the gap. Oats is super fast to cook and doubles up in volume after few minutes on stove top, meaning you will find kheer in the form of thick, porridge consistency as you simmer it.
Sauteing oats in ghee initially ensures it is totally crisp and fragrant without any raw smell over-powering. Following which oats gets cooked in enough milk and with sugar addition it is simmered to perfection.
Oats kheer with generous almond and pistachio topping and cardamom flavor delivered from my blog to your mouth on this beautiful, cloudy evening.
Easy Oats Kheer Recipe
Ingredients
- Oats- 1/2 cup
- Sugar- 1/2 cup
- Ghee- 4 tsp
- Boiled milk- 3.5 cups
- Saffron strands- Few
- Almonds+Pistachio- Handful
- Cardamoms- 3 to 4
Instructions
Preparation
- Chop the almonds and pistachios to fine pieces and roast them in 1/2 tsp of ghee. Also de-seed the cardamoms and powder it finely. Keep them aside till use.
Method
- Soak saffron strands in a tsp of milk for about 10 minutes. Heat ghee in a pan and add oats. Stirring continuously roast the oats till the raw smell subsides and ghee coats well over them.
- Next include 2 cups of milk and let the oats cook in it. When oats become soft enough, add sugar and combine everything well.
- Oats abosrbs sweetness and as it cooks the kheer gets thickened. Next include rest of the milk, saffron soaked milk and cardamom powder.
- Finally garnish oats kheer with roasted dry fruits and serve.
Notes
- Oats kheer thickens as it gets cooled down. So before serving you should add some warm water or milk to make it thin.
- You can add your favorite dry fruits like cashews and raisins too.
- Oats cooks very fast and doubles in volume, so after adding milk keep stirring often to avoid getting burnt.
