Pasi Paruppu Pradhaman | Moongdal Coconut Milk Payasam
A Payasam variety rich in Coconut milk and garnished with Fried Coconut pieces!
Servings: 6 people
Calories: 260kcal
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon Moong Dal
- 5 tablespoon Raw Rice
- 1 cup Coconut Milk Thin Milk
- 0.5 cup Coconut Milk Thick Milk
- 0.5 cup Grated Jaggery
- 0.25 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- 1 teaspoon Ghee (Clarified butter)
- 10 Cashew
- 2 tablespoon Finely sliced Coconut
Instructions
Preparation of Coconut Milk
- Take 1 Coconut, Cut in half, grate the coconut. Take the grated coconut in a mixer jar and add 1 cup of warm water and grind the coconut to a paste. Squeeze out the ground coconut and extract out the thick milk and strain it and keep it aside
- Again take the squeezed coconut scrapings to mixer jar and add 1 cup of warm water and grind it again and squeeze out coconut milk. This milk is thin in consistency. If you are using store bought coconut milk, Take â…” of the milk and add 1 cup of water and dilute the milk. Keep the rest of the â…“rd cup of coconut milk aside.
Cooking Dal & Rice
- Dry fry the moongdal till it becomes red colour. Mix the fried moong dal and rice and rinse it and add 1.5 cups water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. Take the pressure cooked dal+rice and mash it and keep it aside.
Melt Jaggery
- In a pan, add jaggery and add water to soak the jaggery. Keep the flame high and let the jaggery melts completely in water till it dissolves. Take this jaggery juice aside.
Preparing Garnishing Ingredients
- Heat a teaspoon of ghee and fry the cashews till golden color and take it aside. In the same pan, add the sliced coconut pieces and fry till golden brown and take these aside. The fried cashews and coconut pieces are for garnishing the Pradhaman.
Prepare Pradhaman
- In a heavy bottomed pan, strain the jaggery juice and allow it to boil for 5 mins. Then add the mashed dal+rice mixture and stir well so that there are no lumps.
Enrich with Coconut milk
- Add thin coconut milk and let the pradhaman gets boiled in medium flame for 5 mins. Add cardamom powder to enhance the aroma. After 5 mins, add the thick coconut milk and switch off the flame. After adding thick milk, do not keep the payasam on flame.
Garnishing Time
- Garnish the yummy Moongdal Coconut Milk Pradhaman with cashews and coconut pieces.
Serving Time!
- Serve the mouth-watering Pasi Paruppu Pradhaman (Moong dal Coconut milk Payasam) hot and enjoy this delicious drink!
Nutrition
Serving: 1Serving | Calories: 260kcal | Carbohydrates: 63g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 10g | Sugar: 14g