Rava Payasam

Hi! Glad to share this quick and healthy sweet recipe! This is a traditional South Indian recipe made with rava and jaggery as main ingredients. 

Sugar can be used instead of jaggery as a sweetening agent. Jaggery cleanse your body, act as a digestive agent, sweeten your food in a healthy manner, and provide good amounts of mineral. So compared to sugar jaggery is healthier! Let's go for it! 

Happy Cooking! Cheers!

Ingredients:

Rava – 1/2 Cup

Water – 2 Cups

Jaggery  - 3/4 Cup

Milk - 1 Cup

Cardamom powder – ½ Tsp

Coconut – 1/2 Cup shredded

Ghee –  1 Tsp

Cashew & raisins – 10

Method of making "Rava Payasam" With stepwise pictures

1. Dry roast rava in a heavy bottom pan for 5 minutes or till you get the smell of roasted rava

2. Take 2 cups of water in a vessel and bring it to boil, add this to the roasted rava

3. Wait for 2 minutes or till the rava gets cooked completely

4. Add crushed jaggery to cooked rava and mix till all the jaggery pieces melts

5. Add 1 cup milk and mix it gently. Add 1/2 tsp of cardamom powder

6.Grind shredded coconut with water to a fine paste. Add this to the payasam

7. Switch off the flame. Roast cashew nuts and raisins in ghee and add to it 

Note:

1. Roast rava to sand consistency or till you get the smell of roasted rava. This is an important step. Nicely roasted rava gives a good texture to the payasam

2. Coconut milk can be substituted for coconut paste

3. Consistency can be thick or thin according to your wish. Adjust the amount of milk and water accordingly.