Name: Cherupayar Payasam
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Cherupayar parippu (split moong dal); 2 ½ Coconut milk; 4 pc Jaggery; 3 Cardamom; Raisins and cashewnut (as required); 2-3 Shallots; 1 tsp Ghee

Cherupayar Payasam

a very delicious dessert

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Prep Time 45 mins

Total Time 45 mins

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1 cup Cherupayar parippu split moong dal
2 ½ Coconut milk
4 pc Jaggery
3 Cardamom
Raisins and cashewnut as required
2-3 Shallots
1 tsp Ghee

Instructions

Roast the moong dal in a vessel and clean it in water. Drain and keep it aside.
Melt jaggery in + cup of water.
Fry raisins and cashewnut in + tsp ghee.
Cook the drained dal in 1 + cups of coconut milk in a pressure cooker.
Once the dal gets well-cooked mix in the melted jaggery, remaining coconut milk, cardamom and let it boil with lids opened.
Mix in the raisins and cashewnut.
Simmer the payasam in low flame.
SautT shallots in the remaining ghee and mix in with the payasam.
Serve it after lunch or as a teatime dessert.