How much cooking time?

26 min — 15 min prep, 11 min cooking.

Hyderabadi Gil-e-Firdaus

Name: Hyderabadi Gil-e-Firdaus
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 26 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Telangana Indian
Ingredients: 15g pistachios; 20g badam; 1000g Milk; 30g rice; 300g Bottle Gourd; 2g Cardamom Powder; 10g Rose Water; 20g Ghee; 150g sugar; 100g Khoa

Bottle gourd and cream dessert with rose water. Nizam royal sweet meaning clay of paradise.

People also search this as gile firdaus.

Time 26 min · Serves 6 · 360 kcal · Hyderabad, Telangana

Ingredients

Garnish

pistachios (garnish) — 15 g
badam (garnish) — 20 g

Main

Milk — 1000 g
rice — 30 g
Bottle Gourd — 300 g
Cardamom Powder — 2 g
Rose Water — 10 g
Ghee — 20 g
sugar — 150 g
Khoa — 100 g

Method

Soak rice for 1 hour, then grind to a coarse paste.
Peel, deseed and grate bottle gourd. Squeeze out the water.
Saute grated gourd in ghee till raw smell goes.
Boil milk, add rice paste and stir till it thickens.
Add gourd and simmer, stirring often, till milk reduces by half.
Crumble in khoa, add sugar and cook till creamy.
Switch off. Stir in cardamom and rose water.
Top with sliced almonds and pistachios. Chill before serving.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Hyderabadi Gil-e-Firdaus?: 360 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 26 min — 15 min prep, 11 min cooking.

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