BlackRice Recipe/Payasam

    "Black rice" plays a major role in china and Burma cuisine .Our ancestors were traders in Burma and carried this wonderful rice to chettinad .In Chettinad ,Black Rice "Kavuni arisi" present in almost every occasion,normally a pudding will be made with black rice ,sugar and cardamom , such a simple and rich .

   Whatever occasion or festival there should be one kind of this Payasam/Kheer present along with the meal in India .There are so many variation you can make to this  Payasam recipe, change colours by using food colours or adding fruit to make fruit pudding etc.

I keep saying Payasam/Kheer .

What is payasam /kheer/phirni?
   
  "Payasam" is nothing but "kheer" in north India  and "phirni" in south Asia made with boiling sabudana,semiya,poha,broken wheat ,rice in milk and sugar.. flavoured with cardamom ,nuts,dried fruits etc  .
    This black rice payasam is done in the same way for navarathri prasad (offering to god) .Keep on stirring the kheer otherwise it will stick to the bottom .I added cranberries instead of  dried grapes/raisins ,you can add raisins too .You can add cashew nuts instead of badam.You can substitute black rice with regular rice as well to give a twist to the recipe.

Some other payasam

1. Oats payasam
2. Javarisi payasam(sabudana)
3. Parruppu payasam(pasiparupu) 

     

Preparation time:3 hours(soaking)
cooking time:20 min
serves:2-3

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp black rice/kavuni arisi
• 1 tbsp grated coconut/thengai
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 2 1/2 cup milk(i used 2 percent milk)/paal
• 1 cup water
• 1 tsp ghee/nei
• 5 almonds(chopped)
• few dried grapes/cranberries
• 1 cardamom(i didn't use it )/elakai/elachi

Method:

• Soak black rice in hot water for 3 hours.

• Grind black rice and coconut to a  fine paste .

• Mix this paste to milk .
• Add 1 cup of water to it as well to the milk.

• Keep on stirring for 15 min or until it becomes thick.
• Add sugar to it and stir for 5 more minutes.
• Heat a tava add ghee to it .
• Add chopped badam and cranberries and saute it for a min.

• Add this to kheer and stir it well.
• Finally add the powdered cardamom .
• Switch off the stove and cool it down.
• Serve it as prasad /neivedhyam.

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