Paal Payasam/Kheer

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Desserts, easy kheer, easy paal payasam, Indian Desserts, Kheer, Milk Desserts, Paal Payasam, payasam, Rice Kheer

I have been MIA for quiet sometime again. December is going to be a very tight scheduled month. Having a baby has changed everything possible. My DD has turned 6 months old today. Just a few days back we started giving her some solids. As of now she likes avocado.

I was thinking of making a cake. But my hubby said, why don’t you make some payasam, so that she can also have a bit of it. So yes cake plan got cancelled and here is the simple paal payasam/kheer. Did she like it, to my surprise nope, she didn’t 🙂

Ingredients:

Milk : 1 litre/4 cups (full cream)

Basmathi Rice : 2 tables spoons

Ghee : 2 table spoons

Saffron strands : Few

Sugar : 1/4 cup (adjust according to your taste)

Method:

• In a small pan, take a teaspoon of ghee and roast it for a minute.
• Once cool, just give it a pulse in mixie for the rice to break into half.
• In a pressure cooker, grease with ghee.
• Add milk, broken basmathi rice. You can crush the saffron strands and add along.
• Cook it for a whistle. Stop and let it cool.
• Once the pressure is relieved, open and cook in low flame.
• Once the rice gets cooked, add sugar.
• Cook in low flame for around 30 to 40 mins.
• Milk gets thicker. Once it comes to thick consistency,stop and serve.

You can always use jaggery instead of sugar.

Full cream milk gives the best taste.

You can use heavy bottomed pan instead of pressure cooker.

Add some cardamom powder to enrich taste, I didn’t want to make it strong as I am giving my LO.

Add a pinch of salt to enrich taste.

Whole Wheat, nuts Dessert/ Whole wheat laddoo

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chickpea flour, Desserts, healthy desserts, Indian Desserts, Laddoo, nuts, Nuts Laddoo, Poppy seeds, Wheat Laddoo, Whole Wheat Flour, Whole wheat Laddoo

Indians are just fond of laddoo’s to a great extent. I am no exception to it. Laddoo is a sweet dish which is usually round in shape, made in different varieties/flour. I have a dear friend who does laddoo’s in a very healthy fashion. I had asked for the recipe from him, soon will post that variety also. Usually in south India I have seen more of chickpea flour laddoo’s. I wanted to try something different. Found so many recipes over the internet. Finally I mixed up and made this laddoo out of whole wheat flour and YAY! it came out well……I hope dear friends you will like it as well:)

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour : 1 cup

Cashews, walnut, almonds: all together 3/4 cup ( you can add any sort of nuts you want or skip this as well)

Poppy seeds/ khas khas : 1/4 cup

Jaggery/Gur : 3/4 cups ( You can optional use sugar, but I have tried a healthier version)

Cardamom powder : 1 teaspoon

Clarified Butter/Ghee : 2 tablespoons

Method:

First dry roast the whole wheat flour in a large pan for almost 5 to 8 mins, till you get a good aroma. Make sure to stir continuously, so that the lower layer doesn’t get burned. Keep stirring for an even roast. The color of the flour would change slowly to a darker shade. Stop cooking and let it cool down.

Mean time, chop all the nuts to small pieces. Grate the Jaggery. If you have powdered jaggery well and good. Put all of them in a blender along with Poppy seeds, cardamom powder. Grind it well to a fine paste. If needed add very little water and grind it.

I added Poppy seeds to get the crunchy texture, you can skip it if you don’t want. This mixture smell was heavenly 😀

Next in another pan, heat up clarified butter.

When it is heated up nicely, pour it in the dry roasted wheat flour. Pour the ground mixture as well. Mix up everything together.

Make it into small balls, with your fist. If it tends to break while making the balls, apply very little clarified butter/Ghee in your palm and make the balls.

Now the wheat laddoos are ready 🙂