Temple style Kerala Payasam

Name: Temple style Kerala Payasam
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup short grain rice; 2 cups jaggery powder; 200 ml coconut milk; 1/2 cup ghee; 1 tsp green cardamom powder; 1 tsp dry ginger powder(sauth); 3 tbs raisins; 3 tbs chopped almonds; 3 tbsp chopped cashews; A few slices of dried coconut; 1 pinch salt; 4 medium size ripe bananas

Mona Santosh @MonaS

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During our first visit to Kerala I got to taste this amazing payasam given as prasad in temples.
This is a perfect winter sweet recipe because of the ingredients used in it.
It's a dairy free recipe.

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Ingredients

40 minutes

6 servings

1 cupshort grain rice
2 cupsjaggery powder
200 mlcoconut milk
1/2 cupghee
1 tspgreen cardamom powder
1 tspdry ginger powder(sauth)
3 tbsraisins
3 tbschopped almonds
3 tbspchopped cashews
A fewslices of dried coconut
1 pinchsalt
4medium size ripe bananas

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Steps

40 minutes

1

Wash the rice and put it on flame along with 2 cups of water in a heavy bottom pan
2

When its half done, add powdered jaggery, ginger and cardamon powder. Stir well on low to medium flame.
3

When 3/4th done add coconut milk, mix well
4

Peel and cut bananas roughly, add it to the payasam. Mix well.
5

In a pan heat up ghee fry dried coconut slices and keep aside. In same ghee fry other dry fruits one by one.
6

Pour ghee over the payasam that is left in the pan after frying the nut along with fried nuts.
7

Mix well, taste if you need more sweet add extra jaggery powder and a pinch of salt.
8

Consistency of this payasam has to be thicker than normal kheer, switch off the when you get the desired consistency. Serve hot or warm.

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Mona Santosh @MonaS

on February 24, 2022 10:21

Mumbai! Meri Jaan ❤️

Experimenting with the ingredients and using them as a flavour enhancer is something I love doing. A great energy booster- I crave to improve my skills with every new recipe that I create in my kitchen.Follow me on Instagram as m0nas_cabana