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Sharkkara (Jaggery) Paayasam

It is a delicious and yummy dessert that is often prepared on festive occasions like vishu etc. It is yummy to taste and easy to prepare.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 250 Gms Raw Rice preferably Unakkallari/Pachari
  • 5 to Jaggery Sharkara
  • 2 tsp Ghee
  • 10 nos Dried Grapes
  • 3 to Cardamom
  • 20 nos Cashewnut pieces
  • 1 small Grated Coconut

Instructions
 

  • Make Cardamom powder (preferably after removing the skin of cardamom) and keep it aside
  • Wash the Rice and cook it in medium flame
  • When the Rice is cooked, add Jaggery into the cooked Rice and stir it well and allow to cook the mix for about another five minutes time.
  • Then add the grated Coconut into this mix.
  • Also add Cardamom powder, stir the mix and keep it aside
  • Heat Ghee in a Frying Pan (Cheenachatti)
  • Heat/fry the dried Grapes and Cashew-nut pieces in the Ghee till their colour turns into golden
  • Add the fried Grapes and Cashew-nut into the already cooked Rice with Jaggery (before serving the Paayasam, please stir it well).
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