Recipe: Plum + Roses Tea Payesh

By Rapti Bhaumick, From The Corner Table

The #NTChallenge:

A few months ago, we sent out our Plum + Roses Brew to a group of home bakers and cooks, passionate foodies and professional chefs and raised them to the #NTChallenge – create a recipe using the brew!

Rapti went back to her Bengali roots to create this classic sweet dish with a twist! The Payesh is made with the brewed tea, milk and barnyard millet, making this a guilt-free dessert.

You can read her detailed article with the recipe she developed on her website here

Rapti’s Recipe for Plum + Roses Tea Payesh

Time: 40 minutes
Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

• 700 ml full-fat milk
• 2 tablespoons moraiya/barnyard millet
• 2 tablespoons Nature Therapy Plum + Roses Brew
• Sugar to taste
• Almond slivers

Method

• Remove the Nature Therapy Plum + Roses Brew in a bowl and set aside.
• Clean and wash the moraiya/barnyard millet and keep ready. I'd recommend pouring the millet in a sieve to wash in. Easier!
• Put the milk to boil over medium heat in a heavy-bottomed pan.
• Once the milk is warm, remove ½ cup of milk and pour over the tea leaves. Set aside to steep for 5-7 minutes or until the milk comes to a boil.
• Into the boiling milk, pour in the steeped milk tea - along with leaves.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring frequently.
• Cook for 10 minutes. Strain the milk to remove the leaves.
• Pour the strained milk back into the pan and simmer till it has reduced to half the amount.
• Pour in the barnyard millet into the milk while stirring to avoid lumps.
• Cook till the millet pearls are soft. Add sugar to taste, stir well.
• Remove from flame, garnish with almond slivers and serve immediately.

Note:

If you can, use brown sugar.

The kheer will thicken as it cools. To change consistency, add warm milk (as required) and mix well 

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