Rasawal Recipe | Traditional Ganne Ke Ras Ki Kheer | Sugarcane Juice Kheer
Rasawal recipe is a fast/vrat recipe prepared by cooking rice in sugarcane juice.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 Litre Sugarcane juice / Ganne Ka Ras
- 1/2 cup Sama Rice (Vrat wale Chawal)
- 4 Green Cardamoms (crushed)
- Dry fruits of your choice (we used cashews, raisins, almonds & coconut)
- 2 tbsp Milk
Instructions
- Take sama rice in a bowl. As we are making it fast so using sama rice (barnyard millet). Otherwise yo can use regular rice.
- Wash rice and soak for 30 minutes. Keep aside.
- Take a heavy bottom pan and pour sugarcane juice in it. Put the pan on flame.
- When the juice begins to boil, add milk. You will find the scum floating over the surface of the juice.
- Remove this scum.
- The add cardamoms, coconut, cashews, almonds and raisins.
- Drain the water in which rice were soaked and add rice in the boiling sugarcane juice.
- Let the rice cook in sugarcane juice on low flame. Keep stirring.
- Now you need to take care of 2 things. One, rice are properly cooked and second, consistency of kheer.
- You have to boil the juice until desired consistency of kheer is reached. Switch off the flame finally.
- Serve rasawal recipe hot or cold. But personally we loved the chilled cold one and for that kept in the refrigerator.
- Enjoy.
Notes
- Sugarcane juice is usually sold by road side vendors by adding lemon, mint and black salt. But if you are buying sugarcane juice for making rasawal recipe, then do tell the vendor to make juice without adding anything else. Better skip ice too.
Being a best culture medium for the various microorganisms, it is recommended to make rasawal recipe only with the fresh sugarcane juice or the one kept in the freezer. - Although we made rasawal recipe within half an hour of purchasing sugarcane juice but while purchasing, the vendor told us that this sugarcane juice will remain fine for about 2 hours without refrigeration because it was without salt and lemon. So you can keep it that way. However we didn't take the risk and immediately placed juice in the refrigerator after buying.
- Vendor also told us that the colour of the juice will start turning dense and texture little watery, but no issues. As long as it's taste is sweet, you can use it. And yes, this happened. So you too don't worry.
- If you are making it with regular rice, soak them too for about 20 minutes. However if you forget to soak rice, no issues. The only benefit of soaking rice before adding to sugarcane juice is that rice cooks fast. In case you forget to soak, rice will take little extra time to cook. Not a big deal.Also this kheer can be made with precooked rice as well.
- Some people add ghee too or at least roast dry fruits in ghee before adding to rasawal recipe. Choice is yours.
- You will find some recipes using milk too. We didn't add milk to make it purely sugarcane based rasawal recipe. Again choice is yours.
- It can't be suggested for how long to boil the sugarcane juice because boiling timings depend upon quantity of ingredients as well as your liking of consistency. If you want flowing consistency of your kheer, then boil less otherwise more. The basic requirement is that rice must not left uncooked. Also keep in mind that after turning cool, rasawal recipe will be more thick and on refrigeration, thicker. So apply your own judgment.
- When it comes to recipes for fast/Vrat, there has always been a difference of opinion between different sections of people. Like some people believe that cardamom is not to be taken during fasts and other says otherwise. If you too have confusion with regard to any of the ingredients other than sugarcane juice and sama rice, you can simply skip them because rasawal recipe can also be made with just 2 basic ingredients i.e. sugarcane juice and sama rice.