Gil-e-Firdous
Gil-e-Firdous is a sweet dish which is made commonly in Hyderabad. It's a urdu name for a dessert recipe which means "clay of paradise" .The recipe might have got this name because of its taste and flavor.
Ingredients
- 1&1/2 Liter Full Fat Milk
- 1/4 cup Almond
- 1/4 cup Cashew
- 1/4 cup Basmati rice
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder
- 1 tsp Kewra water
- 3/4 cup Kalakand
- 1/2 cup Mixed Nuts
- 1 cup Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 2&1/2 tbsp Ghee
- 1 cup Milk to cook rice
- 1/2 tsp Saffron strands optional
Instructions
- Wash and soak the basmati rice for 1 hour in enough water. Drain and keep aside.
- Allow them to dry on a muslin cloth for at least 30minutes.
- Soak the saffron in 1tbsp warm milk and keep aside.
- Soak Mixed nuts in a separate bowl for 2 hours. Remove the skin and chop roughly. Set aside.
- Soak Almonds and cashews for 2 hours,
- Heat the ghee in a non stick pan. Add dried Rice and cook on low to medium flame for 4-5 min while stirring continuously till the color changes to very light golden brown.
- Add 1 cup of milk ,mix well. cover the lid and cook the rice on low flame for 5-6 min. Cool completely.
- In a mixer grinder jar add cooked rice, condensed milk, kalakand, soaked and peeled almonds, Cashew nuts. Grind coarsely ( don't make a fine paste, you can add some milk while grinding ).
- In a deep non stick pan add milk and cook for 10 min on medium flame. Now lower the flame and cook for 15min stirring occasionally. Add in the rice mixture.
- Add cardamom powder, kewra water, chopped nuts and saffron milk.
- Cook for again 5min stirring occasionally on low flame. If u want more sweet you can add sugar. I didn't added sugar because kalakand & condensed milk has already sugar in it.
- Refrigerate for few hours. Serve chilled garnished with nuts and silver foil(optional).