Serves: 8 people
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
Fresh Blueberries – 1 cup
Dessicated Coconut – 1 cup
Semolina – 1 cup
Ghee – 1 cup
White Granulated Sugar – 1 1/2 cups
Green Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp
Cashew nuts, broken – 1/4 cup
Almond Slivers – 1/4 cup
Salt – a pinch
Preparation:
- Wash blueberries and pat them dry.
- Measure all the ingredients and keep them ready.
Method:
- Heat 1 tbsp of ghee in a thick bottomed pan.
- Add semolina and roast on medium flame until they turn crisp. At this stage, semolina gives out a nice aroma and looks slightly white in color. While roasting, use a spatula, wooden/steel, to fry semolina and work fast – keep semolina moving, to avoid over-roasting them.
- Immediately transfer the roasted semolina into a dry bowl.
- In the same pan, heat 2Â tsps of ghee and roast cashew nuts until they turn slightly golden brown. Immediately transfer them into another bowl.
- Again, in the same pan, heat 1 tbsp ghee, add blueberries. Saute until they turn soft.
- Meanwhile, boil 2 cups of water in a separate pan or a vessel.
- Add sugar, salt and cardamom powder to the softened blueberries. Mix well.
- Pour the boiling water and half the quantity of remaining ghee.
- When all the sugar melts completely, add roasted semolina while stirring the mixture continuously in one hand. Mix well to remove any lumps.
- Cook covered on low flame until it thickens.
- Now add all the remaining ghee, dessicated coconut, roasted cashew nuts and almond slivers. Mix gently until the mixture starts forming a lump.
- Turn off the heat and transfer the pudding into a bowl.
- Serve hot.
- Once cooled, this pudding can be stored in an air-tight container for 2-3 days, if refrigerated. Microwave just before serving.
- If fresh blueberries are not available, you can use frozen blueberries or 2/3 cup of dried blueberries.
- You can replace dessicated coconut with fresh coconut. But the shelf life of the pudding will reduce.