Couscous Payasam

Ingredients for Couscous Payasam:

1. Couscous – 2 tablespoons

    Raw rice (Pachari) -1 table spoon

    Cashews – 6

2. Almonds – 5

    Cashews – 6

    Coconut grated – ¾ cup

    Dried coconut chopped – ¼ cup

3. Jaggery melted – 1 cup

4. Coconut milk – 3 cups

5. Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

6. Ghee -2 table spoons

    Cashews & raisins – 2 tablespoons fried in ghee

How to prepare Couscous Payasam?

1. Slightly fry ingredients no: 6 in a low flame for 3 or 4 minutes. Take extra care so that the ingredients do not get burned.

2. When couscous turns brown or tender pink colour, take it off the flame and allow the contents to cool.

3. Make a fine powder of the mixture using a blender.

4. Add a little hot water to ingredients no: 2 and make a fine paste.

5. Add a cup of water and melt jaggery. Later strain it and keep aside.

6. Add 2 tablespoons of ghee to a pan and add the coconut-almond paste.

7. Also add the powdered couscous mixture.

8. Reduce the flame and sauté for 5 minutes.

9. Add jaggery solution and half the amount of coconut milk.

10. Allow the contents to boil on a low flame. Stir continuously.

11. Now add the remaining coconut milk.

12. Boil the contents for 5 minutes on a low flame.

13. Take off flame and add cardamom powder. Add cashews and raisins fried in ghee, and serve.

Courtesy: Grihalakshmi August 16-31, 2017

Also read a few more payasam and pradhaman recipes. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.