Delicious Zucchini Kheer
Prep time: 05 Mins
Cook time: 30 Mins
Yields: 4-5 Servings
Zucchini is not only for pasta dishes and curries anymore! You can make this tasty and traditional Indian dessert kheer, using it. Sounds too good to be true, right!?
Ingredients
Garnish:
Instructions
  1. In a large saucepan heat the milk. In a small cup, add the saffron strands and a tablespoon of warm milk and let the saffron dissolve. Meanwhile, cook the zucchini and pistachios by sprinkling little water in a microwave oven. Depending upon the power it will take 5-6 minutes for the zucchini to cook. Just wash the zucchini and cut it. Peeling is not necessary. The green skin will give a nice hue to the kheer.
  2. If you have a high-speed blender like Vitamix, you can immediately make of a puree of zucchini and the nuts. If you have only an ordinary blender, you will have to wait for the cooked zucchini too cool completely. Otherwise, you will witness the lid exploding and the puree splashing everywhere. Make it into a smooth puree.
  3. Now add the puree and saffron with the milk to the boiling milk in the saucepan. Keep stirring occasionally otherwise you will notice that the milk solids will start sticking to the bottom of the pan. Warm the mixture in low-medium heat, until you don't sense the raw smell of zucchini anymore.
  4. Now slowly stir in the condensed milk (if using) and sugar and mix until well dissolved.
  5. Meanwhile in a small frying pan, heat the ghee and fry the charoli seeds until golden brown and add it to the kheer.
  6. Serve it warm or store it in the refrigerator once it cools completely and serves it chilled.
My Notes:
  1. You can use a lot of other vegetables like carrot, pumpkin, beets, ridge gourd, chayote squash, sweet potato, etc instead of zucchini. It's better to cook these vegetables in a pressure cooker instead of the microwave oven.
  2. If you don't have sweetened condensed milk, use some more sugar as needed.
  3. You can also use a combination of evaporated milk and 2% milk if you don't have whole milk in hand.
Recipe by Madhuram's Eggless Cooking at https://www.egglesscooking.com/delicious-zucchini-kheer-recipe/