Jackfruit payasam

பலாபழம் பாயசம்

Ingredients

1. Jack fruit cut into small pieces (or pulp) - 4 cups
2. Jaggery - 3 cups
3. Water - 1/2 cup
4. Coconut milk - 3 cups
5. Cardamom powder - 2 teaspoons
6. Broken cashew nuts - 5 tablespoons
7. Dry ginger powder - 1 teaspoon
8. Ghee - 1 tablespoon

Procedure

• Pressure cook the jack fruit pieces for 20 minutes
• Remove and grind it in a mixer for 5 minutes
• Keep it aside. Melt the jaggery with 1/2 cup of water to double thread consistency and strain it to remove the dust
• Now mix jackfruit mass with jaggery syrup and keep it on stove
• Keep stirring for 30 minutes
• Now the mixture will become thick like idly batter
• Then keep a pan on the stove
• Add ghee and roast the cashewnuts to golden color
• Now add the coconut milk to the jackfruit mixture with cardamom powder, dry ginger powder and allow it to summer for 5 minutes
• Never allow it to boil for a long time
• Over boiling will cause curdling of coconut milk
• Garnish with the roasted cashewnuts to serve
• Note: To increase the taste of payasam, roast 2 tablespoons of moong dhal and pressure cook till it becomes soft. Then add this along with the jackfruit mix and stir well

Rice and Dhal Payasam.

                                 
Ingredients

1.      Rice---1/4 cup

2.      Green gram Dhal—1/4cup

3.      Channa Dhal—1/4 cup.

4.      Coconut milk---2cups.

5.      Jaggery---300 gm

6.      Cashewnut---12 Nos

7.      Powderd cardamom----1/2 teaspoon

8.      Ghee----3T able spoon

Procedure

·         Heat 1teasp of ghee and

·         Fry rice, dhal together.

·         Cook this with 3 cups of water in a pressure cooker.

·         Heat 1cup of water , add jaggery and bring to a syrup consistency.

·         Filter the syrup to remove dust.

·         Add syrup to the cooked rice dhal mixture and stir well.

·         Keep it on the stove for 10 minutes.

·         Add coconut milk and fried cashewnut and cardamom.

·         Stir well and serve.

Caution---Once coconut milk is added   DO NOT  allow the payasam to simmer for a long time.