Paneer kheer recipe | Easy Paneer payasam

Paneer kheer is an easy dessert with the ingredients available at home. Yet one of the rich paneer sweet items to serve in special occasions.

Want to make a quick sweet treat yet rich one without any compromise in taste? Prepare paneer payasam using ingredients available at home.

Do check out my other paneer mithai recipe in my website using fresh paneer (chenna) also other paneer recipes compilation.

I have not planned to try this, but saw in an old cookbook I had. Since it was simple and easy, I thought I will give it a try.

Though this is with ready made paneer, you can do it with homemade paneer too.

It turns out really good. Both me and Vj loved it. This could be helpful now during Janmashtami.

Check out my collection of other recipes you can try for Gokulashtami / janmashtami.

You may also be interested in my Badam kheer recipe in my website.

How to make paneer kheer with condensed milk?

You are time pressed and do not want to wait for the milk to reduce by simmering?

Instead, you can make paneer kheer with condensed milk. In this case you can skip sugar and use ½ cup condensed milk along 1 & ½ to 2 cups milk.

Easy right?!

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Paneer kheer recipe

Paneer kheer is an easy dessert with the ingredients available at home. Yet one of the rich paneer sweet items to serve in special occasions.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Servings 5 servings

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• VISIONS sauce pan

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Ingredients

• 200 gm Paneer fresh or frozen
• 3 cups Milk
• 1 Cardamom - 1 or
• ¼ cup Sugar plus 2 tbsp
• 2 drops Rose essence
• Saffron – few strands
• 2 tablespoon Sliced pistachios

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Instructions

• Keep paneer immersed in hot water firstly until soft.
• After that, grate it or crumble it as fine as possible.
• After that, start boiling milk.
• Furthermore, simmer the flame until the milk reduces to half.
• Soak saffron in milk and add it to the reduced milk along with sliced pistachios.
• Simmer for 2 more minutes. Switch off the flame and keep aside.
• After that, heat sugar with ¼ cup water and melt it. Then add grated paneer to it.
• Mix well and switch off the flame. Add the boiled reduced milk.
• Finally add cardamom or rose essence and mix well. Cool down and keep refrigerated.

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Notes

• Make sure to grate the paneer finely.
• Adjust sugar quantity as per your choice.
• Soak pistachios in warm water for 10 mins and peel off the skin if any. Slice it and use in the recipe.

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How to make paneer kheer

1. Keep paneer immersed in hot water firstly, until soft. After that, grate it or crumble it as fine as possible. Boil milk.

2. Furthermore, simmer the flame until the milk reduces to half. Meanwhile, soak saffron in milk and add it to the reduced milk along with sliced pistachios.

Simmer for 2 more minutes. Switch off the flame and keep aside.

3. After that, heat sugar with ¼ cup water and melt it. Then add grated paneer to it.

4. Furthermore, mix well and switch off the flame. Then add the boiled reduced milk.

5. Finally add cardamom or rose essence and mix well. Cool down and keep refrigerated.

Serve cold, tastes like rasmalai in kheer form.