Ingredients
Cherupayar Parippu - 250 gram
Jaggery ( sarkara) - 250 gram
Coconut - 2 nos
Ghee - 2 tea spoon
Dry ginger ( chukku ) powder - ¼ tea spoon
Cumin powder - ¼ tea spoon
Cashew nut / raisins - as required
Method of preparation
Take a pan and roast the cherupayar parippu ( split green gram) till it become light brown in colour. You have to heat it approximately for 5 to 6 minutes. After that wash it thoroughly and drain it and keep it aside . Take another vessel . Pour required water and boil. Add the washed cherupayar parippu into it and cook well. . Take another vessel . add the jaggery and make syrup out of it by adding required water. Add the jiggery sryrup into the cooked parippu and stir it till it get thickened. Then add the second and third extract of the coconut milk and stir again till it get thicken. Add ghee and again stir. When it become thick as required the add the first extract of coconut milk and stir again. Approxiamtely after 4 to 5 minutes add the dry ginger powder cumin powder and stir. Once it get thick remove from the stove. Take another pan and heat 2 tea spoon of ghee. Fry the sliced coconut , cashew nuts and raisins in the ghee one after another. Add this fried coconut cashew and raisins along with the ghee into the prepared cherupayar paysam . Tasty payasam is ready