Tender Coconut Payasam
Tender Coconut Payasam is a delicious recipe with tender coconut pieces. Tender coconut is cooked with milk and sugar is added at a later stage. It is then flavored with nutmeg powder and cardamom.
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
2 cups Tender coconut scraped from shell and cut into small pieces 1 litre Cow’s milk 1 cup Sugar 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder Elakka 1/2 tsp Nutmeg powder Jathikka 2 tbsp Cornflour 20 g Cashew nuts 20 g Raisins Unakka munthiri 1 tbsp Ghee
For preparing tender coconut payasam, cook the coconut pieces in 1/2 cup water.
When cooked, add milk to the coconut pieces and bring to boil.(Leave about 5 tbsp of milk for later use)
Add sugar and wait for it to thicken a bit.
Heat ghee in a pan, fry the nuts and raisins and pour into milk mixture.
Take the 5 tbsp milk and mix cornflour in it. Pour into the milk mixture.
Wait for it to boil and thicken. Remove from flame.
Tender coconut payasam recipe is ready.