Saturday 5 November 2011

Nei Payasam


I tried making "Nei Payasam " otherwise called "Aravana Payasam" which is made for Bhagavati Seva . I am sharing the recipe here as it came out extremely well.
Ingredients:
2 cups Raw Rice
10 cups Jaggery (Powdered)
Coconut chopped into thin slices- 1/2 cup
Ghee (preferably Cow Ghee)- 350 ml.

Wash the rice well in water. Boil 5 cups water in a vengala panai or any open vessel as if you pressure cook it it will become smudgy. Water can be reduced by 1 cup if rice is very new. Put the rice in the boiling water and cook stirring once in a while seeing that it does not get stuck in the bottom of the vessel. After it is almost cooked (should not be smudged) put off the fire. Take the 10 cups jaggery and pour enough water to submerge it in an uruli or heavy bottomed wide mouthed pressure pan. When the jaggery is fully melted, strain it  for impurities and pour it back into the vessel again. Add the cooked rice and bring to boil. Keep on boiling stirring it often so that it does not get burnt and keep adding ghee little by little leaving about 100 ml for frying coconut. When it is quite thick and done, put off fire. Heat the rest of the ghee in a small kadai and fry the coconut pieces well in the ghee and add to the payasam. The Nei Payasam is ready!!

2 comments:

  1. As one of the Guinea Pigs subjected to partaking this item, I can vouch that the dish tasted really yummy and superb and tasted like Guruvayurappan koil prasadam.
    All can try and see.

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  2. If Rammohan himself has vouched for it, then it must be reaaally good.... will try it soon. 1 :)

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