Healthy Thinai Thengai Paal Payasam | Foxtail Millet and Coconut Milk Payasam

Recipe : Healthy Thinai Payasam | Foxtail Millet and Coconut Milk Payasam Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Recipe Cuisine: Indian Recipe Category: Beverage Serves: 4 to 5 persons

Ingredients :

Thinai Arisi \ Foxtail Millet - 1/2  cup Palm Jaggery \ Karuppatti \ Panai Vellam - 1/4 cup Jaggery - 1/2 cup Coconut Milk - 1/2 Large Coconut (1st extract - 1 cup, 2nd extract - 2 and 1/2 cup) Cashew-nuts - 15 no Dry Ginger \ Sukku Podi - 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp Ghee - 2 tbsp

Method :

Steps To Make The Thinai Arisi \ Foxtail Millet Payasam : First ghee roast the cashew-nuts in a hot pressure cooker pan and keep aside. Then again ghee roast the thinai till the nice aroma arise and cook over simmer. Carefully pour the second extracted coconut milk into the roasted thinai, mix well and cook for 1 whistle and 6 to 7 minutes over simmer.

Meantime, heat the palm jaggery ( karuppatti \ panai vellam ) and the jaggery together with half cup of water, cook over simmer till the jaggery's dissolved completely and keep aside. Once the steam released from the pressure cooker pan, open and mash the cooked thinai little. Then filter the jaggery's syrup directly into the thinai and mix well.

Add in the dry ginger \ sukku and cardamom powder into it and mix well. Then pour the first extracted coconut milk, mix all and remove from the flame before the payasam boils. Finally add the roasted cashew-nuts, mix all and ready to serve.

Serving Suggestion : Serve hot or chill with Murukku. Related : Payasam and Juices Recipes. Other : Millet Recipes

Author: Kalai's Cooking Recipes