Carrot – Rice Payasam
Ingredients for Carrot – Rice Payasam:
1. Carrot – 4, big
2. Milk – 1 litre
3. Jeerakasala rice – A handful
4. Sugar – ½ cup
5. Condensed milk – ½ cup
6. Ghee – 1 tablespoon
7. Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
8. Salt – A pinch
9. Water – ¼ litre
10. Cashews and almonds – 2 tsp each
11. Saffron – A pinch
How to prepare Carrot – Rice Payasam?
1. Peel off the skin of carrot and cook it well adding sufficient water.
2. When it cools, make a fine paste.
3. Cook rice in a pan adding sufficient water.
4. Allow the rice to cool and then smash it once in a blender. Never make a smooth paste.
5. Take a thick bottomed pan and add carrot paste to it.
6. Add a little milk to smashed rice and mix it well till lumps disappear.
7. Add remaining milk and rice to it.
8. Add rice along with milk to carrot and put on the flame.
9. Add condensed milk, sugar and cardamom powder.
10. Keep stirring till payasam starts to boil.
11. Reduce the flame and cook till contents turn thick (or as you wish).
12. Fry cashews and almonds in a pan adding ghee and pour it to payasam.
13. Add a pinch of salt and mix the payasam well.
14. Decorate with a pinch of saffron, and serve hot or cold as you wish.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine August 15 – 31, 2014
Also read a few more desserts with condensed milk as one of the ingredients. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.
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