Rice payasam

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peace, Prosperity and

happiness in your life always......"

HAPPY PONGAL TO ALL MY VIEWERS .....

Rice payasam is one among my favourite & quickly becomes ur favourite too.... It's rice pudding typically made by boiling rice with milk and sugar. It is often flavored with cardamoms, saffron, pistachios or almonds. It’s a delightful dessert for anytime of the year and is served in almost many of Indian festivals & celebrations. While the dish is traditionally made with rice, it can also be made with other ingredients such as vermicelli (sayviah) which is a thin noodle.

My mom makes this with lots of nuts especially cashews & raisins, this add good flavour, aroma & richness to the rice pudding. Now, its my hubby fav too...

Ingredients :

1. Basmati rice - 1/2 cup
2. Sugar - 1/2 cup (as per ur taste)
3. Whole Milk - 4 cups plus coconut milk - 1/2 cup
4. Cardomom powder- 1/2 tsp
5. Broken cashews - 1 tsp
6. Raisins - 1 tsp
7. pistachio crushed - 1 tsp
8. Saffron - a pinch
9. Ghee - 1 tbsp
10. Condensed milk - 3 tbsp

Ready to eat :

• Wash & soak the rice for 1/2 hr in water.
• Boil the milk, in a heavy bootom pot. When the milk comes to a boil, add the rice & sugar and simmer. Stir to insure that the milk does not stick to the bottom.
• Cook till the rice is cooked and the milk thickens and reduces to half its original volume.
• Heat ghee on a low flame & add cashews, raisins and pistachios.
• Add the roasted nuts, cardomom powder, condensed milk in the payasam & mix well.
• Garnish it with a pinch of saffron & rose petals.

Enjoy this Pongal with this georgeous looking rice payasam & it taste yummy yummy.....