Few days back, I saw a request in my recipe request page from Rochin. He said, “Recently I attended a south indian wedding. There I ate a kind of payasam made up of sabudana /tapioca and moong daal . It was very testy and delicious. Could you please post a recipe for it? I will definitely try it out”.
Whenever I get any request for recipe, I start searching for it. I can’t reply to all your requests, but sometimes, I get lucky and find the recipe easily from my Aayi. So when I asked her about this request, she gave me this recipe.
Sabudana is mixed with either vermicelli or moong daal to make payasam(paays) . Sabudana- vermicelli is a very popular combination compared to sabudana-moong daal combination. Both have exactly the same recipe.
Ingredients: 1/2 cup moong daal or 1/2 cup vermicelli 1/2 cup sabudana 1 cup sugar 1 tea spn raisins(dry grapes) 1 cup cashews 1/4 tea spn cardamom powder 1 tea spn ghee 1 cup milk
Method: Soak sabudana in water for about 30mins. Wash moong daal in water. Heat ghee and fry raisins and cashews for sometime. Add moong daal (or vermicelli) and fry till a nice aroma comes out. Now add milk, sabudana and cook till moong daal and sabudana are cooked well (You can cook them in water instead of milk, but milk gives a nice flavor). Add sugar and cook till sugar is diluted. Take out from heat and add cardamom powder. Mix well. Serve hot or cold.
Serves : 4-5 Preparation time : 25mins
PS: Instead of frying the raisins and cashews and ghee, they can be added with milk while cooking. Add more milk or sugar to suit your taste and consistency.
Chirmuro (Konkani) meaning puffed rice. This is a versatile item which can be eaten as it is or made into many tasty dishes. I like any dish with puffed rice. When I was thinking of posting something simple today, I saw the picture of this dish in my picture “library”.
Aayi makes two types of spiced puffed rice. The one is most common and prepared in most of the houses. But this version is very different and I haven’t seen this prepared anywhere else. Even the puffed rice which has lost it’s crispiness. It is served topped with or without fresh coconut.
Ingredients: 4-5 cups puffed rice( chirmuro ) A generous pinch of turmeric 1/2 tea spn pepper powder 1 tea spn ghee Salt
Increase or decrease pepper to suit your taste.
Method: On a low flame, heat ghee . Add turmeric, pepper powder, salt(take care not to burn anything). Fry for sometime and then add puffed rice. On a very low flame, keep stirring it one in a while till the rice has become very crispy and the ghee mixture is coated on rice. Let it cool to room temperature. Store in airtight container. Serve as it is or topped with little fresh coconut.
Preparation time : 8-10mins
