Archana's Recipes: 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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