Aval Payasam/Poha Kheer

For the day 2 of Blogging Marathon #43,I am sharing aval payasam for the festive themes.I have already shared a version with coconut milk and jaggery here.But today's version is using milk and sugar which we make quite often for poojas.Usually my mom makes it very simple but here I added cashew paste for extra rich taste.Lets move on to the recipe..............................

Aval Payasam/Poha Kheer

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  Basic Information

   Preparation time ~ 5 minutes

   Cooking time ~ 25 minutes
   Serves ~ 2

    

  

 Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Rice flakes/aval(thick)	1/2 cup
Milk	21/2 cups
Sugar/sakkarai	1/4-1/3 cup
Cardamom powder/ellakai	a pinch
Cashews/mundiri(broken)	2+1 tbs
Ghee/Nei	1 tbs

  Method 

• Soak 1 tbs of broken cashews in 1/4 cup of milk for 10 minutes and grind it to a fine paste.Heat around 2 tsp of ghee and roast the rice flakes till it becomes crisp and remove it.In the same pan add the remaining ghee and fry the cashews to a golden color.

• Boil the milk in a pan and let it simmer for 5 minutes then add the roasted aval/rice flakes.Allow it to cook,once the rice flakes is cooked add in the sugar and let it boil for another 3-4 minutes.

• Add the ground cashew paste and allow it to cook for one boil.Finally add the cardamom powder and fried cashews and boil it for a minute,put off the flame.

• Aval Payasam is ready.

Enjoy..............................

• The consistency of the payasam becomes thick after cooling.
• Here I used 1/3 cup of sugar which was little bit more but if you want milder sweet use around 1/4 cup and tsp.
• Instead of cashew paste,condensed milk(1/4 cup) can be used,in that case don't add any sugar.
• Saffron can be added for extra flavor. 

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