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Tapioca Pearl Kheer with Saffron and Nuts

This recipe is very similar to the last, only a bit grander.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 4

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Crush 1 teaspoon saffron threads in a mortar and add them to the milk when you are heating it. When you add the sugar, put in 2 tablespoons golden raisins and 2 tablespoons chopped pistachios as well. Just before serving, sprinkle a tablespoon of very finely chopped pistachios over the top of the pudding.

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Excerpted from At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka by Madhur Jaffrey. Copyright © 2010 by Random House. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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