Maha’s Recipes

The Rice Payasam, this amazingly tasting sweet is a Traditional Recipe of South India made for all auspicious occasions and festivals. Its easy to prepare but all you need is a little bit of patience in its making process.

Ingredients:

• 1 lt milk
• 1 heaped cup of sugar
• 1 tbsp Ghee
• a pinch of Cardamom powder
• 6-7 Cashew Nuts (chopped)
• 1/2 cup raw rice

Method:

1. Clean the raw rice and soak it for 15 min.
2. Add 1/2 water and the soaked rice to milk and boil it in low flame till the quantity reduce to half.
3. Add sugar and cardamom powder to the boiling milk and cook for another 5 minutes while stirring continuously.
4. Remove the boiling milk from flame.
5. Fry the cashew nuts in ghee and add them along with the ghee as is.
6. Serve HOOOT!

According to your taste you can vary the amount of sugar.

For Rice Flakes Payasam, use the same method. The only change is, use rice flakes instead of raw rice.