Pal Payasam is a traditional dessert .It is prepared
on special occasions and festivals. This recipe of the pal payasam or the kheer
is very simple to prepare and very tasty
recipe The best taste for Pal Payasam is
when the raw rice is cooked in milk on slow heat in heavy bottomed vessel or in
pressure cooker which turns out very light pinkish in color finally. I usually
prepares it by boiling the rice in milk over stove top which is very time
consuming but it adds a nice creamy taste .There are two ways of making it.
First, one where you reduce the milk to half by heating it and then adding
sugar.The second one is where you reduce the milk a little and then adding
condensed milk which makes it thicker and tastier.When you are using condensed
milk there is no need to add sugar. . But now a days I prepare PalPayasam in
Pressure cooker.
Ingredients
Milk - 1lr/ 6 Cups
Rice - 1⁄4 Cup
Sugar - 1 Cup
Method:
Pour the milk into
cooker and bring it to boiling be sure that the cooker is only 1/2 or little
more than 1/2 filled and not fully filled.
Add washed rice into this and stir well.
Now close the cooker with the whistle! And leave the flame
in Simmer for exactly 20 min and turn the gas off. (Don’t have to worry about
the number of whistles.)
Open the cooker after the steam is released completely.
Keep it on stove with full flame and allow boiling for 5
min.
Once rice gets cooked
now add sugar and mix for 2 mins till the sugar is dissolved stir it well.
Delicious palpayasam
is ready to be served .Garnish with aromatic spices.