Broken Wheat Payasam

It is a very delicious sweet dish prepared using broken wheat, jaggery and coconut milk especially during
festival seasons.

Ingredients:

Broken wheat: 1 cup

Jaggery : 1 cup

Grated Coconut: 1 cup

Cashew nut: 10

Ghee: 1 spoon

Cardamom powder: small pinch

Water: 4 cups

Almond : few for decoration

Method :

1.Wash the broken wheat 2-3 times.
2.Add 3 cups of water to the broken wheat and keep it in a pressure cooker .Cook till 3 whistle
and keep it in low heat for 2 minutes.
3. To prepare the coconut milk, grind the coconut with little water into a smooth paste .Squeeze
the ground coconut by keeping it in a clean cotton cloth. After this process, add a cup of water
to the squeezed coconut and repeat the process.
4. Take a vessel and add cooked broken wheat, coconut milk and jaggery and boil it for 10 min in
a low heat.
5.Once everything is mixed well, add cardamom powder and stir.
6. Fry cashew nuts in ghee and add to the mixture. Decorate with almonds.
7.Broken wheat kheer is ready to serve.

Did you know?

Payasam word is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Payas’ which means milk. Kheer ,another name for
Payasam is derived from the word ‘Ksheeram’ which also means milk. In north Indian region sugar and
milk is used whereas in south coconut milk and jaggery is used.

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Ginger Tambli

Tambli can be prepared using different ingredients like brahmi, spinach, amla , methi seeds etc. It has

medicinal values. Here we are preparing Ginger Tambli. Ginger is one of the most ancient spices in the

worldwide cuisine. It has become well-known for its various health benefits including: its ability to help

digestion.

Ingredients :

Ginger : 1 inch piece

Cumin seeds : 1 spoon

Green chilly : 1

Butter milk : 2 cup

Grated coconut : 3 spoons

Salt : half spoon

For tempering :

Curry leaves : 10

Cumin seeds : half spoon

Mustard seeds : half spoon

Method :

1.Grind ginger, cumin seeds, green chilly and grated coconut to a smooth paste.

2.Add butter milk and salt to this and mix well.

3. Put cumin seeds, mustard seeds and oil in a pan and heat it. Once it starts spluttering, add curry

leaves. Just stir for a minute and add it to the ground mixture.

4.Stir well and enjoy with hot rice.

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Sweet Pumpkin Sabji

Ingredients :
Sweet Pumpkin pieces : 2 cups
Grated coconut : 2 spoons
Oil : 2 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 spoon
Jeera (cumin seeds)- 1 spoon
Curry leaves : 10
Red chilly : 4
Udad dal : half spoon
Salt : As per the taste
Jaggery : a very small piece
Tamarind Juice: 1 spoon

Method :

1. In a pan , take two  spoons of oil and heat it. Add mustard seeds, jeera, udad dal, red chillies . Once the mustard seeds start sputtering ,add curry leaves .
2.You have to add sweet pumpkin pieces to this .Saute for 5 minutes . As the sweet pumpkin pieces become  tender, add salt, jaggery and tamarind juice.  Saute for 2 more minutes. Add grated coconut and mix well.
3.Serve hot with rice or roti.


Note :
1.You can use lemon juice instead of tamarind juice.
2. Jaggery is optional.

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Dates Kheer

Dates Kheer( Kharjoorada Paayasa )

• Dates- Seedless – half kg
• Sugar : One and half cup
• Coconut : 1
• Cardamom : 4
• Badam :hand full 
•  Rice flour : 2 Spoons

Method :

1.Chop Dates into small pieces  Add one cup of water to this and pressure cooker for 3  visile and 2 min  under sim.   

2.Grate the coconut. Grind it with little water. Squeeze it to get the thick coconut milk. Keep aside. You can use a strainer or thin cloth for this step.

3.Add little water to the coconut which is already squeezed and grind it.  Squeeze it again .This coconut milk is thin . You can use a strainer or thin cloth for this step as well.

4.In a vessel add cooked dates and sugar :gas stove should be on low heat. When sugar starts getting dissolved ,add rice flour,  coconut milk-thin version and boil for 5 min . Now time to add thick coconut milk . Keep stirring and boil for 10 min under Sim.

5.Add powdered cardamom and crushed almonds.