Brown Rice Kheer Recipe. Vegan Rice Pudding

Diwali is this weekend! And that means sweets, savories, chivda, lighting oil lamps, prayers for prosperity and happiness and meeting everyone to share wishes.

Kheer is one of the favorite desserts in the festive season. It is easy, delicious with a dash cardamom or saffron and simmered for a long time till the rice is soft and almost dissolving into the milk. One of my aunts makes amazing kheer with soft rice that has soaked up all the milk and flavor, which would be slow cooked, chilled and served. I know rice pudding can be a like or dislike dish depending on memories and flavors. But for me memories around kheer are about all the extended family getting together, celebrating festivals and enjoying thick and fresh Indian Rice Pudding. 
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More Indian Sweets to make this Diwali

• 15 minute Toasted Coconut Ladoo
• Besan Burfi(chickpea flour fudge bars),
• Kaju Katli(cashew fudge),
• Mango ladoo,
• dairy-free Gulab jamun (doughnut holes),
• Besan Halwa(chickpea flour spoon fudge) or Carrot Halwa

While you are here, read about and catch the screening of Blood Lions.

Blood Lions is a documentary about the realities of the multi-million dollar predator breeding and canned lion hunting industries in South Africa. Captive bred lions are killed in canned hunts and slaughtered for the lion bone trade. Last year alone over 800 captive lions were shot in South Africa, mostly by wealthy hunters under conditions that are anything but sporting. Ian has been following this story since 1999, and he goes onto the breeding farms to witness the impacts that decades of intensive breeding is having on the captive lions and other predators.