Paal Payasam With Rice and Chana Dal Recipe

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Paal Payasam with Rice and Chana dal Recipe:

Serves 3-4
Prep time:10 mins | Cooking time: 30-40 mins | Total time: up to 1 hr + soaking time
Cuisine: Karnataka - India | Category: Kheer - Sweets

Ingredients:
1/4 cup Basmati Rice
1/4 cup Chana dal(optional)
1 litre thick whole cream Milk
1/2 cup Sugar, approx.
1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
8-10 Cashew nuts, slit
2 tbsp. Raisins(optional)
1 tbsp. Ghee

Method:
Wash and soak chana dal for half an hour. You can avoid chana dal in the recipe.
Clean the basmati rice and keep it ready. You can either pulse it slightly or use the
whole basmati rice as it is.
Heat 1 tsp ghee in a cooker or thick deep pan and dry roast basmati rice slightly until
the moisture evaporates and add chana dal and 1.5 cups of milk roughly and pressure
cook for 2 whistles. If you are cooking directly in the pan, it takes quite longer but
you need to add more milk for cooking it.
Once the pressure drops you can add remaining 3- 3.5 cups milk and sugar and let it
boil on low flame for 12-15 mins. The kheer thickens slowly and it also would
become thick as it sits, so make sure you switch it off accordingly.
Meanwhile heat remaining 2 tsp ghee in a pan and add cashew nuts and fry them until
they turn golden color and remove them and keep aside. Add Raisins and fry until
they bulge and remove them as well.
Just before removing it from stove add cardamom powder and fried cashew nuts and
raisins and mix well.
Notes:
Chana dal is optional in the recipe, but it adds nice bite to the payasam. Give it a try
with chana dal its nice.
You can even add saffron strands soaked in milk to the kheer at the end which will
give a nice saffron color to the kheer.
The addition of nuts and raisins is again optional, but for me any kheer is incomplete
with out nuts.
If you are short of time you can pulse basmati rice in mixer so that it can be cooked
faster. If you have rice rava you can even use it.
Basmati rice adds a nice flavour to the kheer, hence I suggest to use basmati rice for
this kheer. But you can use any rice variety also.

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