Recipe Details

Instructions

1. 1
   To the boiling milk, add drained rice and stir.
2. 2
   Cook the rice till it turns mushy and soft. Stirring once in every few minutes is needed. Mash few grains of cooked rice with a ladle to the side of the hot pot, the rice should get mashed well.
3. 3
   Adjust the consistency of the payasam by adding more milk. Let the rice and milk bubble up after adding milk if needed. Mash the rice if you desire.
4. 4
   Add sugar or jaggery or cooled jaggery syrup and green cardamom powder, to the pot. Switch Off the stove and mix to blend everything well. Refer notes for jaggery syrup.
5. 5
   Heat ghee in another small pan, fry cashews till golden, add raisins. Stir till they swell and pour this to the rice payasam.
6. 6
   Set aside the nuts and raisins for garnish if desired.