Which Rice is best for making the kheer or Pudding?

For choosing the rice for kheer firstly understand the texture of rice, the texture of rice is depend on its two different component of starch i.e. amylose and amylopectin

What is kheer or pudding?

Kheer or pudding is creamy sweet dish prepared by slow cooking rice with milk in presence of sugar and flavored with cardamom or other spices mix and decorate with dry fruits such as cashew, almond and raisins

People are also asking why is kheer popular in India it’s because of it has its own religious and cultural history

Kheer or Rice pudding is mostly serve in festivals or in family functions of India

How to choose best rice for kheer?

For choosing the rice for kheer firstly understand the texture of rice

The texture of rice is depend on its two different component of starch

1. Amylose –

The higher the amylose the lighter and fluffier rice will be and become firm after cooling

Amylose is a long and straight starch molecule, mostly long grains contain high amount of amylose

2.Amylopectin-

The more amylopectin in rice the more  creamier and stickier rice will be

Amylopectin is complex starch molecule and it became very sticky after cooking

Short grain rice mostly are rich is amylopectin

We want creamy and sticky texture in kheer so we will focus only on the rice which are high in amylopectin

Which rice is best for making the kheer? Or which type of rice is best for rice pudding?

Best rice for making the kheer

1. Gobind Bhog-

                Gobind bhog is cultivated in west Bengal in India, it is short in size and sticky aromatic in nature.

It has sweet buttery flavor and it is used in Bengal for making the payesh

Payesh is Bengali version of rice kheer sweet

2.Manipur black rice –

It is fragrant variety of black rice which is sticky in texture the alter name for this rice is Chak Hao Amubi in Manipur

The Manipuri black rice kheer is prepared from this rice and it is also kind of best kheer recipe

3.Arborio rice-

This rice is rich in amylopectin when it’s cooked it become sticky and creamy due to this it is mostly preferred for making kheer or pudding

It is Italian short grain rice

4.Broken basmati rice-

It is very good in fragrance and delicious in aroma because of this it is widely used for making the kheer in north india , mostly the kheer with condensed milk taste good

People also ask can we use basmati rice for kheer?

As the grains are broken the cooking property of rice is easily change and gives sticky texture as require for making the kheer