RICE PAYASAM [RICE PUDDING]

INGREDIENTS:

1 litre milk
1 cup white rice
1/4th cup coconut milk
2 cups Palm jaggery or jaggery [according to sweetness]
Few rasins and chopped cashewnuts [fried in 2 tspn ghee]
1/4th tspn cardamom powder[elaichi]
Few saffron threads soaked in 1 tspn milk
Pinch of salt

PREPARATION TIME:30 minutes
Serves : 2

PREPARATION:

Wash the rice well. Soak it in milk for 15-30 minutes. Take a vessel cook the rice and milk until the rice is tender and the milk has reduced more than half in volume.Take the vessel away from the fire and add the palm jaggery [ jaggery is added away from the flame as otherwise it may curdle].Now add coconut milk and stir it for 5 minutes. Now add the saffron soaked in milk and mix it well.Add a pinch of salt.Also add cardamom powder.Finally add the fried rasins and cashewnuts.And mix it well.

Garnish it with rasins.You can also garnish it with rose petals. Serve it hot or cold.