Idichhu pizhinja Payasam/Coconut milk Payasam

Ingredients:-

Thick Coconut milk (onnam pal)                                    - 1 cups

Thin Coconut milk (rendam pal)                                     - 3 cups

Raw rice, red (matta pachari)                                           - ¾ cup

Jaggery grated                                                                     - 1 ½ cup

Cardamom powder                                                              - 1 tea spoon

Dry ginger powder                                                               - 1 tea spoon

Ghee                                                                                      - 3 tea spoons

Cashew                                                                                 - 10-15

Raisins                                                                                 - 10-15

Method:-

If you want to use fresh coconut milk, Take one big size coconut, grate it and grind in a mixer with 1 cup of water and squeeze and transfer the 1^st milk to a bowl and again put the squeezed coconut in the mixer add 1 cup of water and grind well, get the second milk and transfer to another bowl and repeat and take 3^rd and 4^th milk and transfer them to different bowls.

Wash the rice and cook it in a pressure cooker with the last two cups of fresh coconut milk or one cup of thin coconut milk and one cup of water. In a wide thick pan add the Jaggery and ½ cup of water and make syrup. Filter the syrup so that the sand and other dirt can be removed. The rice should be over cooked; I mean it should be very soft. Add this syrup to rice and stir well and cook in medium heat for 5 minutes. Add all the coconut milk except the thick 1 cup of milk. Stir well and cook for another 5 minutes. The Payasam will start to thicken. Now add the 1^st/thick coconut milk, cardamom powder and dry ginger powder and stir well. Switch off the stove. Transfer the Payasam to a serving bowl. In a pan fry the cashews and raisins in ghee and pour it over the Payasam. Yummy idichupizhinja Payasam/coconut milk Payasam is ready.

You can use broken wheat instead of rice. Then it becomes Gothambu/Wheat Payasam.