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This is a simple payasam with no need to boil. Ingredients: Tender coconuts-2 Coconut Milk- 1 cup Condensed milk (Milkmaid)-4-5 tbsp Raisins, Cashew and Elaichi powder- roasted in ghee. Mix condensed milk, coconut milk and coconut water. Add raisins, cashew and elaichi powder (once they are roasted in ghee). Refrigerate and serve chill

This recipe does not have milk and involves only cooked rice, jaggery and sumptous amount of ghee. 1. Take 1 cup of cooked rice 2. Take 1.5 cups of powdered jaggery and add this jaggery to a pan and add water and keep stirring until the jaggery dissolves. 3.Once all the jaggery has dissolved, add the cooked rice and add 3/4 cup of ghee. Let this mixture cook. This is something kids will love. You can also garnish with raisins and cashews (fried in ghee). This tastes great when served hot (with good amount of ghee- Calorie conscious folks- Beware!).

Ingredients: 1. Semolina: 1 cup (broken)and fried in ghee 2. Milk- 3 cups 3. Sugar- 2- 2.5 cups 4. Cardamom powder- 1 tbsp 5. Raisins and Cashew -(4-5)- Fried in ghee. Procedure: 1. Add semolina and milk to a pan and let the semolina cook in milk. 2. Add sugar and cardamom powder and keep stirring. 3. Once the semolina is cooked well, add the raisins and cashew (already fried in ghee). This is another famous payasam in T.Nadu

Ingredients: 1. Moong dhal- 1 cup 2. Jaggery: 1.5 cup 3. Milk- 2 cups 4. Cardomom powder- 1 tbsp 5. Cashew-4 ; Raisins-4 Procedure: 1. Pressure cook moong dhal, adding lil water for 3 whistles 2. Powder Jaggery. 3. In a pan, add jaggery and moong dhal (cooked), add milk and let this boil. (Cook in low flame and keep stirring constantly). 4. In another pan, add 1-2 tbsp of ghee and add cashew and raisins and add these to the boiling moong dhal, milk mixture. Add cardamom powder also. Once these come to a boil, switch off the stove and payasam is ready to be served. This is the traditional payasam (kheer) of TamilNadu.

Ingredients: 1.Milk (Full cream) - 1 litre 2.Sugar- 1/2 cup 3.Raw rice- 1/2 cup 4.Maida- 1tbsp 5.Coconut oil- 1 tbsp Procedure: 1. Soak raw rice for 45 min and grind it until it reaches the dosa batter consistency, 2. Add maida and coconut oil. 3.In the plaintain leaf, spread the dough like dosa. 4. Tie the plaintain leaf (like a pocket) with a thread and cook it in steam (Pressure cook, without adding weight). 5.Once you take out plaintain leaf, put this in bowls of water. 6. Cut the cooked adas into 3-4 pieces and add this in a milk 7. Add sugar and let this boil for 8- 10 minutes

1.Grind jack fruit in a mixie, after removing the seed. (Depending on the sweetness of the jack fruit, the proportion of jaggery can be altered). 2.Use about 1:1.5 as measure for Jackfruit: Jaggery proprtion). Add jaggery in a tawa and add water. 3.Once all jaggery has been melted, add jack fruit and 1-2 cups of milk. Let it boil (sim it till it boils). 4. Add cashews, raisins sauted in hot ghee. Serve hot/cold