Dessert

Dessert

Moong Dal Payasam

Ingredients:

-- Moong dal -8 cup

-- Rice - 1 cup

-- Jaggery crushed  - 3-4 cup

-- Sugar - 1 cup

-- Milk - 1.5 liters.

-- Coconut milk - 2-3 cups

-- Cardamon - 10 pieces

-- Ghee - 1/4 cup

-- Cashews - 1/2 cup

-- Raisins - 1/2 cup

-- Poppy seeds - 1/2 table spoon

Method:

-- Break the cashew into small pieces.

-- In a pressure cooker, put washed moong dal & rice and add 2 times water to it and keep it for pressure cooking(2-3 whistles).

-- Keep a pan for heating and then add ghee, add cashew & raisins into the pan and keep stirring until the cashew & raisins turn light brown color. Ensure you are heating the pan in low flame/heat.

-- Keep aside the roasted cashew & raisins. Later, in the same pan add pasteurized  milk & let it boil for a while & then add coconut milk to it. 

-- Add cardamon seeds.

-- Now add the cooked moong dal & rice to it and keep stirring.

-- Add crushed jaggery & sugar, let it dissolve thoroughly.

-- Add little bit of poppy seeds  

-- Now add the roasted cashew & raisins.

-- Add few more tea spoons of ghee for the payasam to taste more yummy.