Ingredients
1 cup short grain rice/pachari/Payasam rice
2 cups water +1.5 cups milk (or use only water for cooking rice)
1.5 cups melted Jaggery
½-1 cup grated coconut
2 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp cahsewnuts
1 tbsp raisins
¼ tsp Cardamom powder
Directions
Wash and boil rice with 2 cups of water when the rice is almost cooked add milk and cook till rice is mushy consistency.Heat heavy bottomed pan and add melted Jaggery to it .And also add cooked rice. Pour 1 tbsp ghee and mix well. Mix grated coconut also and mix well. Heat the remaining ghee in a pan and fry cashews and raisins.Pour over the payasam. Serve warm.
Note :
If you are using Payasam rice, you need to cook in pressure cooker, otherwise it will take long time to cook over stove top.
