Creamy Quinoa Kheer

Hello everyone,

Quinoa payasam or kheer is the delicious and simple dessert made with milk and quinoa. 

I eat quinoa almost everyday for rasam rice and curd rice. Also, I use it in burrito as substitute to rice. It was my son's star birthday and I wanted to make some payasam/kheer to offer god. Why not prepare quinoa payasam rather than regular vermisili or rice payasam. Yes, I decided to make it and it was delicious.

We can pressure cook the quinoa in milk to speed up the process but I slow cooked on stove top to get creamy consistency. 

Serving size - 3-4  

Ingredients:

Quinoa - 1/2 cup

Whole Milk - 3.5 Cups

Jaggery - 3/4 to 1 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Cashews - 10

Raisins - 10

Pre-preparation:

1. Wash quinoa with water, drain and keep it aside to dry.

2. Grate or powder the jaggery.

3. In a small pan, melt ghee. Add cashews, raisins and fry till cashew turns golden brown. 

Method:

1. In a heavy bottomed vessel, melt ghee and roast the quinoa for few seconds. 

2. Add 3.5 cups of milk and boil the milk on a medium heat until the quinoa is cooked. It takes about 10 mins. 

3. Lower the heat further and keep stirring the milk. When you see the creamy layer, stir and mix it. 

4. Stir until the quinoa and milk reduces to half the quantity. This process takes around 30 mins. 

5. Add powdered jaggery, cardamom powder. Mix well and switch off the stove. 

5. Finally garnish with roasted cashews and raisins. Quinoa payasam is ready to serve. 

Note:

1. Do not burn the quinoa while roasting.

2. Put a ladle in the vessel so that milk do not overflow. 

3. Make sure to add jaggery at the end to void curdling. 

Tender Coconut Payasm

Hello everyone,

I fell in love with tender coconut payasam when i had for the first time in Crimson Chakra Restaurant,Adayar,Chennai. I wanted to prepare this since long time. Finally, i prepared delicious tender coconut payasam on Tamil New Year. My husband and Mother-in-law loves sweet. They liked it very much.

Tender Coconut Payasam

Time Taken: 30 minutes
Serves 6-8 ppl

Ingredients:

• Tender Coconut - 2 (Both water and pulp)
• Sweetened Condensed Milk (Milkmaid) - 150ml
• Milk (Boiled and Cooloed) - 200ml
• Elachi/ Cardomom (Powdered) - 1
• Ghee - 1/4 tsp
• Chashews - 6
• Raisins - 6

Method:

• Grind the tender coconut water along with some pulp. Keep rest of the pulp aside. Grind it smoothly.
• Mix the condensed milk with chilled milk.
• Now mix the grinded pulp with tender coconut water to the Chilled milk + condensed milk. Mix well.
• Cut the remaining pulp into small pieces and add to mixed content.
• Heat a pan, add 1/4 tsp ghee, roast the cashews and raisins and add to the Payasam.
• Add powdered cardomom powder to Payasam
• Chill them in fridge for about 30mins and serve.

Bread Kheer

Tasty and Yummy Bread Kheer

Time Taken:1hr and 30 mins

Ingredients:

• Milk – 1.5litre
• Sugar – 150 – 200gms
• Almond – 12(Grated)
• Cashew -10(Grated)
• Bread – 4 slices
• Ghee - 3tbsp

Preparation Method:

•  Boil milk in a pan with medium flame.
• Give it an occasional stir. Remove cream (paal aadai) from the sides of vessel and add to boiling milk.
• Add grated almonds and cashews.
• Add sugar and give it a stir.
• Reduce the heat and cook until the milk has reduced to less than half.
• Remove edge of bread slice and make it to small pieces.
• Toast bread slices with ghee to make it roast.
• Add toasted bread slice before serving.