Curry Nercha of Kudamaloor Church

Ingredients for Curry Nercha:

1. Coconut – 5
2. Raw rice powder – ½ kg (Pachari)
3. Jaggery – ½ kg
4. Palayamkodan banana (a small type banana) – 30
5. Puzhukkalari (parboiled rice – brown colour) – ½ kg
6. Chukk (dried ginger), Cumin seeds and Cardamom – as per taste

How to prepare Curry Nercha?

1. Wash Pachari and powder it.
2. Dry fry puzhukkalari and grind it also.
3. Remove banana skin and slice it to thin pieces.
4. Melt jaggery and remove impurities.
5. Extract coconut milk from coconut.
6. Mix coconut milk, raw rice powder (pachari) and jaggery together and boil it well.
7. Add bananas and stir well, according to the cooking of rice.
8. Add puzhukkalari powder along with dried ginger, cumin seeds and cardamom. Stir it well and take your payasam from flame.
9. It should not be too thick or too watery. It should be similar to payasam.