PUMPKIN PAYASAM

Pumpkin Payasam is a traditional recipe made using coconut milk, pumpkin, sabudana, and cashews. Full of flavor, this sweet recipe is a quick and an easy to make recipe. The specialty of this payasam is, you will not be able to taste the pumpkins at all.

INGREDIENTS:

Pumpkin chopped - 2 cup

Jaggery - 1cup

Ghee - 1tbsp

Sabhudana - 1/8 cup

Grated coconut - 1 cup

Cashews - 8

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Coconut bytes - 6 to 7

METHOD:

1. Pressure cook the pumpkin for 2 whistles by adding half cup of water.

2. Drain water and smash the pumpkin. Keep it aside.

3. Cook the sabudana adding water in a pan. Keep it aside.

4. Get 1/2 cup of thick coconut milk, a second 1/2 cup of thinner milk, and then a third 1/2 cup of thin milk from the coconut.

5. Take a pan/uruli, heat ghee. To this add mashed pumpkin and saute well.

6. Add jaggery and saute well until it thickens.

7. Add cooked sabudana and 3rd thin coconut milk. Boil it for 3-4 mins.

8. Add 2nd thin coconut milk and boil for few mins. Switch off the flame.

9. Now add thick coconut milk and cardamom powder.

10. Take a pan and heat ghee in it. Add coconut bytes and fry well Add cashew nuts and fry till golden brown.

11. Pour this to the pumpkin payasam/kheer.

12. Enjoy the payasam!!!!!!!!