PAAL PAYASAM

Raw rice - ½ cup
Almonds - few
Pistachio - few
Milk - 2 ltrs
Sweetened condensed milk - 1/2 tin
Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp
Saffron - a pinch

Wash and soak rice in water for `1 hour. Drain and crush with your hands so that the grain break into small pieces. Soak almonds and pistachio in hot water for 1/2 hour. Drain, peel and cut into thin slices. Add milk and water to a thick bottom pan. Bring to boil add rice and reduce the heat to low medium and cook, stirring frequently,
till milk is reduced by half and rice is done.
Add sugar and mix well and remove from flame. Garnish with almonds and Pistachio.
Serve warm.