Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Wheat Payasam

Ingredients

  • 1  cup broken wheat
  • 1 ½ cup grated jaggery
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tbsp ghee
  • 8 to 10 almonds roughly chopped
  • 8 to 10 cashew nut roughly chopped
  • 1 tbsp of dry grapes (kishmish)
  • ¼ cup grated coconut ( optional)


Method

  1. Wash broken wheat and cook in cooker with 2 cups of water for 2 whistle.
  2. In a heavy bottom pan transfer the cooked wheat, discard excess water if any and add milk to it.
  3. Once the milk is boiling add grated jaggery and keep stirring. (More jaggery can be added to make it sweet)
  4. Add grated coconut.
  5. Heat ghee in a separate pan and roast almonds, cashew nut and kishmish in it. Add the roasted nuts to the payasam.
  6. Server it hot or chilled.




1 comment:

  1. We never put almonds in any kind of payasams(in kerala). What I thought was, the almonds will give a different taste and doesn't suit well with payasams, may be wrong.

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