Palada Pradhaman

My favourite payasam.... What is any Sadya without Palada Pradhaman....?

Ingredients:

Milk 4 cup
Water 2 cup
Condensed milk 1 cup
Butter 2 tbsp
Ada 1/4 cup
Sugar 1/2 cup
Cashew nut - 15

Method:
Boil ada by putting it in 2 to 3 cup boiling water. Keep it covered for 30 minutes. Drain water completely. Heat butter in a pan and fry ada to a light pink colour in slow fire taking care that the ada does not break or gets soggy. Keep it aside. Boil milk and water in a thick bottom pan. Add boiled ada and reduce heat to low medium while stirring all the time. Keep stirring till milk is reduced by 2/3rd. It takes about 1-½ hours to prepare the dish and now, the color of pradaman should be of pink color. Add condensed milk and cook for 5-10 minutes more. Add sugar and mix it well. Remove from fire and add the fried cashew nuts and cardamom powder.

Suggestions
Stir continuously for sometime so as to prevent the payasam from curdling.

Pal Payasam - Kerala Style

Pal Payasam

A dish from Kerala which is very simple to prepare and tasty to eat.

Ingredients
1 litre milk
1 cup brown broken rice
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
1/2 cup condensed milk
15-20 raisins
Cashew nuts 10

Method
Cook the rice. Add milk, condensed milk and sugar to rice and mix well.
Boil it till payasam thickens. Fry cashew nuts, raisins in pure ghee and add the same into the payasam. Add cardamom powder and stir the payasam. Serve hot or cold.