My Second prize "South Indian Dishes " book and " Mysore Kheer "

Very happy to post my first prize for winning the Second @ Masterchef Contest conducted by Divya pramil ( youtoocancookindianfood.blogspot.in ) long back...
Sorry Divs for posting this very late... I received a lovely book " South Indian Dishes " by Meenu Gupta . It has lots of delicious recipes with clear n easy procedure...Thanks Divya for choosing such an amazing book....
I wanted to try one recipe from her book and dedicate to her to convey my Thanks...That's the reason for delay in posting this!!!!
Here is the recipe...

Mysore Kheer :

Ingredients :

• 1 1/2 litre Milk
• 50 gms Rice
• 1 Tbsp Bengal gram
• 1 Tsp Cardamom powder
• 2 Tbsp Fried Cashewnut / Badam
• 2 Tbsp Raisin
• 1 Tbsp grated coconut
• 1 Tbsp Ghee
• 150 gms Sugar

Method:

• Heat ghee in a frying pan. Add rice and gram.
• Fry for 2 minutes and add milk.
• Reduce flame after a boil and cook on low flame.
• When milk is reduced to half, rice n gram is cooked, add cardamom, raisin, coconut and sugar.
• When sugar is dissolved, add cashew / Badam. Boil for another couple of minutes.
• Serve hot or cold.