Gulab Phirni is a rice and milk pudding with a flavor and aroma of fresh red roses .
Phirni is a simple pudding , but a traditional one , made on festivals , here I have given it a slight twist by adding rose water , rose petals and finally some edible color . One can minus the color and add some crushed rose petals too for the pink hue.
Gulab Phirni is similar to the Gulab Kheer , for Kheer we use whole rice whereas coarsely ground rice are used for Phirni . We can give these a twist with different flavours . The creamy dessert will surely please you either ways . I have a collection of various Kheers and Phirnis and all compiled on one page , do check them out.
While making phirni one must make sure to add the rice paste to cold milk and then switch on the flame of the pot . Also one has to stir the milk constantly so that no lumps are formed . Even after you switch off the flame keep stirring so that no skin is formed. Once it comes to room temperature , chill the dessert and serve .
Phirni , Kheer , Payasam – well the ingredients are the same , but with a little difference get a new avtar and of course a new flavor. The Gulab Phirni is my Day 1 post under the theme Milk based Puddings.
Gulab Phirni
Ingredients
Method

Gulab Phirni
Ingredients
- 11/2 cups milk
- 1 tbsp basmati rice soaked
- 2 tbsp sugar
- Few drops rose essence
- Few fresh rose petals
- Few drops pink food color
- Nuts to garnish
Instructions
- Grind the soaked rice coarsely in a mixer . A few drops of water can be used for grinding .
- Boil milk , simmer the flame add rice mixture.
- Stir continuously , so that no lumps are formed . Add sugar .
- Let cook for another two three minutes .
- Remove from flame and let cool .
- While it is cooling , keep stirring at regular intervals so that the skin is not formed .
- Once cool add rose essence , pink food colour ( optional ) and some finely chopped rose petals .
- Serve chilled garnished with rose petals and nuts .
Lovely colour and I am sure this tasted awesome Vaishali. Personally I feel one has to be quite careful while making this phirni as it tends to get lumped up right..
I am totally in love with everything in this post – whether it is the clicks or the backdrop or the pretty pink of this delicious looking dessert or all that flavor! The aroma I am sure was amazing and tasted delicious as well…
OMG that phirni looks sooo pretty – the color is just amazing. I am sure it must have tasted as exotic as it looks.
Also that backdrop looks great too.
I am bookmarking this Vaishali, that color is absolutely stunning!
Wow gulab phirni looks so amazing, love the color it has got.
Mouthwatering gulab phirni and lovely color of the dish. Looks absolutely scrumptious.