Monday, September 20, 2010

Aval Payasam

AVAL PAYASAM
HI all,
I have published 450 recipes as of today. And wanted to post something sweet. This is one of my favourit payasam and I have not made this for quite sometime. So contributing this recipe as my 450th recipe with a Sweet.


Ingredients:
Aval - 1 cup
milk - 1/2 a lt
Jaggery (powdered)- 2 handful
cardamom - 3
saffron - 1 pinch
ghee - 2 tsp
cashews - 4 - 5 (chopped)
raisins - 10
badam - 3 (soaked for 3 hrs in hot water)




Method:
- peel and chop the badam
- soak the aval in water for 10mins
- squeeze and remove, leave it aside
- add jaggery and some water
- bring it to a boil
- strain the jaggery mixture and keep it aside
- in a pan add ghee, add badam,cashews and raisins
- fry
- powder the cardamom coarsely
- add the cardamom powder and aval
- fry for 2 mins
- add the jaggery mixture and milk
- allow that to come to a boil
- when its cooked add the saffron
- remove from fire
- as the payasam cools, it would get thicker.
- serve warm or chilled

4 comments:

Prathima Rao said...

My fav too!!Had it once at a function n luvd it..but when v tried it out at home it did not come out so good..Your version looks simple n delicious!

Shanthi Krishnakumar said...

Congrats on your 450th post and wish you many more to come

Umm Mymoonah said...

Looks so delicious, nice dessert.

Anonymous said...

Good evening

Thanks for writing this blog, loved reading it