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Kavuni arisi halwa

Taste the Chettinad dessert flavours through this black rice dessert. The Kavuni arisi halwa is a memory-retaining halwa experience with the forbidden rice cooked in coconut milk and flavoured with jaggery. 
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Dessert, Sweets and savories, Traditional
Cuisine gluten free, Indian, South indian, tamilnadu, Vegetarian

Equipment

  • deep pot
  • Pressure cooker

Ingredients
  

For cooking the black rice

  • 1/2 cup black rice
  • 3/4 cup drinking water

For making the halwa

  • 2 tsp ghee
  • 1/4 cup coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup jaggery
  • 1/4 tsp green cardamom powder

Instructions
 

  • Wash and soak the rice for 15 minutes.
  • Pressure cook the rice with 3/4 cup of water for 20 minutes or 3 whistles.
  • Let the pressure cooker release naturally.
  • Once the rice has cooked, fluff it and set it aside.
  • Pound or crush the jaggery and set it aside.
  • Into the frying pan, add the ghee
    melting ghee
  • As it heats up add the cooked rice, coconut milk and shredded jaggery.
    cooked black rice.
  • Let this cook down and keep stirring so that it cooks through.
    black rice halwa cooking.
  • As it thickens, add the cardamom powder and keep cooking till you see the ghee leaves a bit.
  • Once it looks at a honey consistency, remove from heat and set it aside.
    black rice halwa.
  • Transfer the halwa into a bowl and serve warm.
    kavuni arisi halwa | black rice dessert
Keyword black rice, christmas recipes, Indian vegetarian dinner
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