DRUMSTICK AND DRY FIG PAYASAM

DRUMSTICK AND DRY FIG PAYASAM

INGREDIENTS:

Drum sticks – 3,

Dry fig – ¼ cup – finely chopped,

Milk – 3 cups,

Water – cup,

Sugar – 1 cup,

Ghee – 2 tsp,

Cashews – 6,

Raisins – 6,

Sabudana – cooked in water – ¼ cup,

Green cardamom powder – 1 pinch,


METHOD:

Clean the drumsticks and cut them into finger size pieces and properly cook them in sufficient water,

When they are cooked remove them from the water and take the pulp out of the cooked drumstick, keep this pulp in a bowl


Heat ghee in a pan and fry the cashew and raisins on a low flame one after the other, then fry the fig pieces on a low flame and remove them aside,

Boil milk along with water in a vessel add the drumstick pulp, cooked, sabudana, and ghee fried dry figs into the boiling milk,

When the figs become soft add sugar and green cardamom powder to it, mix everything well,

That’s it drumstick, dry fig payasam is ready to be served either hot or cold,

Garnish with roasted cashews and raisins,

Apart from the regular payasams, this is different and yummy, as its season of drumsticks lets use it as much as we can in our recipe, do give try to this unique payasam you will for sure love it.