Kerala Style Rice Payasam – Ari payasam

Ingredients

• Rice – 1 kg
• Jaggery – 1 cup
• Grated coconut – 2 cup
• Milk – 1 or 2 cup
• Cashew nut – 2 or 3 tbsp
• Raisins – 1 or 2 tbsp
• Bay leaves – 6 or 7 not
• Cardamom – 5 or 6 nos
• Dry ginger powder – 1 tbsp
• Cumin seed – 1 tbsp
• Ghee – 4 or 5 tbsp

Method

• Heat water in a pan add jaggery and boil them well.
• Take a large bowl add grated coconut ,squeeze them well.
• Drain thick coconut milk and keep aside.
• Add some more water to the squeezed coconut mixture
• Mix well and drain thin coconut milk and set aside.
• Again, continuing the same draining method for coconut milk straining.
• Heat water in a pot
• Heat water in a pan ,add coconut pieces
• Sauce and fry till they become golden brown .
• Heat ghee in pan ,add coconut pieces
• Saute and fry them well.
• Then add cashew nut and sauce them well.
• Finally add some raisins and fry till they become golden brown.
• Drain and keep aside.
• Take a pan add rice and water .
• Wash them well and drain ,set aside.
• Heat a pan add drained rice and ghee,saute them well.
• Add third strained coconut milk ,stir and boil them well.
• Then drain jaggery water ,
• Again add second thin coconut milk into the half cooked rice
• Stir and cook them well.
• Add drained jaggery water saute and boil them well.
• Add bay leaves and boil them well.
• Crush cardamom and set aside.
• Then stir the payasam very well.
• Add some amount of milk and boil them well.
• Then add dry ginger powder cumin powder and cardamom powder
• Combine them well.
• Add fried coconut pieces ,raisins and cashew nut ,stir them well.
• Pour thick coconut milk ,combine them well.
• Remove from fire and keep aside.
• Serve and enjoy rice payasam