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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
Total Time 20 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 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

Instructions
 

  • 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.
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