Kiran Devi's Paneer (Indian Cheese) Milk Pudding
Paneer ki Kheer (Payesh)
I learnt to make this delicious milk pudding from my late mother in-law, who was a great cook and taught me many dishes. I have made minor adjustments to the original recipe - Mamta.
Serves 6
Edited March 2024
Ingredients
- 60 gm. Paneer
- 1 litre milk
- 100 gm. sugar
- 4 tsp. corn flour (custard type, not Indian corn meal)
- A few drops of rose or kewra (screwpine flower) essence or a few strands of saffron
- 10 pistachio or almonds, skinless and chopped. You can buy flaked almonds instead, and crush them a little in your palm.
Instructions
- Grate or finely chop or crumble paneer into little pieces. Fresh paneer is easy to crumble.
- Measure all other ingredients & keep aside.
- Making milk base for the pudding:
- Boil milk until it is reduced to half.
- Dissolve the corn flour in a little cold milk and add to boiling milk slowly, stirring all the time. Continue stirring until thickened, almost like a custard. Remove from heat. Keep aside.
- Cooking paneer: You can do this on another cooking ring while the milk is boiling.
- Mix sugar with 1/2 cup of water and make a thin syrup.
- Add grated/chopped paneer and stir.
- Simmer for 10-15 minutes or so.
- Strain and add paneer to thickened milk. Discard syrup.
- If you are using Saffron, add now.
- Continue boiling briskly for 5-10 minutes, stirring very frequently.
- Taste and adjust sugar.
- Cool and add essence, if using rose or Kewra (screw pine essence essence and not saffron.
- Add 1/2 of the shredded almonds or pistachio or both.
- Transfer to the bowl you are going to serve it in and chill. It will set slightly.
- Decorate with remaining almonds and pistachio. Serve chilled.
- Also see Reeta's Paneer (Indian Cheese) Milk Pudding.
Notes
- Short cuts:
- For making milk base for the kheer/pudding, use only 250 ml. of full fat milk instead of full 1 litre. Boil it and add one 250 ml. tin of un-sweetened condensed milk.
- Buy ready made paneer from Indian store. Fresh tastes better though!
- Buy pre-chopped almonds and pistachio.
- Kewda or Screw pine = It is an Indian flower with a very gentle and sweet scent.