Peach Phirni (Rice Pudding)
Peach phirni is a delicious dessert which is a creamy eggless pudding. Traditionally phirni is made with rice, milk and sugar. Adding peach gives a wonderful creamy smooth texture.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup rice
- 3 cup milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 15 oz can of unsweetened sliced peaches
- 1/2 tbsp corn starch
- 1/8 tbsp cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp sliced almonds
- Few slices of canned peaches
- Few mint leaves
Instructions
- Wash rice and soaks it for fifteen minutes or more.
- Drain the water and blend rice to a fine texture, adding just enough milk as needed to blend. Keep aside.
- Drain the syrup from can peaches. Keep 4 slices of peach aside for garnish.
- Puree the remaining peaches with corn starch. Keep aside.
- Boil the milk on medium high heat and let it simmer until milk reduces to about 2 cups. After milk comes to boil it should take about 8 minutes.
- Take about 1/4 cup of hot milk and mix it with rice paste.
- Add rice solution to the boiling milk slowly and keep stirring continuously, making sure rice does not become in lumps and milk does not burn on the bottom of the pen.
- Cook until milk has reduced to about half in volume and rice is cooked.
- Next add the sugar and cardamom powder, cook for about 4 minutes on low medium heat. Turn off the heat.
- just after turning off the heat add the peach puree gently with cooked rice.
- Shift the phirni to the serving bowl and garnish with almond, and peach slices.
- Let it sit in refrigerator for few hours. Serve chill
Notes
Variations
There are so many delicious variations to this dish! Instead of peaches try making this dish using fresh mango, guava, passion fruit puree.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Divya
September 22, 2014 at 5:08 pmInstead of corn starch, wat is the substitute?
Manjula Jain
September 24, 2014 at 3:16 pmDivya, Sabudana powder or arrow root
Rajshree Waranashiwar
January 31, 2013 at 7:56 pmManjula,
Can I make this one day ahead of party?
Manjula Jain
February 1, 2013 at 12:09 amRajshree Waranashiwar,
Peach Phirni is good for 2-3 days refrigerated.
Tassy
September 11, 2012 at 12:23 pmHi Manjula,
Can I add cornflour instead of cornstarch?
Can I use rice flour instead of making a fine paste of rice?
Thanks….
mela khan
November 14, 2010 at 6:46 amis it important to add cornstarch? because if i don’t have it what do i use any offers
Krithika Rajgopal
October 23, 2010 at 7:31 pmHi Mrs Manjula,
I am a very big fan of your recipes more because you make it look very simple with easy to follow instructions. I would like to try your peach phirni recipe in a weeks time. When you say the rice should be ground to a fine texture, should it be in the consistency of coarse sooji?
Manjula Jain
October 23, 2010 at 10:59 pmKrithika,
Rice should be ground to the consistency of coarse sooji?
divya
September 30, 2010 at 7:35 amcan we make plain phirni
Manjula Jain
September 30, 2010 at 8:49 amDivya,
Do not add the peach every thig remain the same.
Dominique
November 8, 2010 at 7:29 pmThis was delicious plain. I made it the other day and just left out the peaches and cornstarch. Also I added a touch of vanilla extract just like in the rice puddings I usually make. However, I’d like to have it without next time so it tastes not so much like the same old one I make 😀 And instead of soaking my rice, I just ground my rice to a powder in my dry Vita Mix container and added it to my almond milk and cooked it all together. Thanks for all you do, Manjula!
Shina
September 11, 2010 at 10:56 pmDear Manjula Aunty,
I tried this recipe and it came out awsome and very tasty.
Thanks a lot for this recipe.
with regards
Nima K
August 25, 2010 at 12:27 pmThe recipe below the video calls for 1/3 cup sugar, while you mention 3/4 cup sugar in the video. Though it does look like you have used 3/4 cup sugar, please let me know for sure so that when I make the dish it does not end up being too sweet or less. Thanks.
Manjula Jain
August 25, 2010 at 4:26 pmNimak,
Sorry it should be 3/4 cup sugar.
Api
August 25, 2010 at 5:50 amHi Manjula Aunty,
Can i use rice powder (flour) instead of grinding raw rice?? Thanks
ayman
August 21, 2010 at 7:58 amhi manjula i watched you recipe of how to make roti its very nice i learned the simple steps thanks to you….i used to do but mine rarely pop up…i will try your technique and see…your website is top…coz we can watch demonstration….
Meenal
August 18, 2010 at 3:12 pmLovely recipie..! Can i make this with fresh peaches instead of canned ones..? What would be the quantity of peach puree then..? pls advise.thnks.
Thenmozhi
August 18, 2010 at 11:07 amHi
I tried this recipe in the same way u posted but with just 8 0z of peaches, still the taste was very gud..It was awesome..Thanks for the recipe..
Tanvi
August 16, 2010 at 3:59 pmA very nice innovation of a classic dish.
I love the color a lot!
Mrs Annam Senthil Kumar
August 13, 2010 at 4:17 amIt sounds good, should taste good.
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saritha
August 12, 2010 at 1:30 amMadam can you post bengali sweet cham cham??
akanksha
August 11, 2010 at 5:39 pmExcellent recipe. Just 1 question. Should the rice be ground really fine ? Please answer.
Manjula Jain
August 11, 2010 at 10:36 pmAkanksha,
Rice should be grounded fine.
akanksha
August 14, 2010 at 9:44 amTried it, really very very tasty. Thanks a lot.