PASIPARUPPU - COCONUT MILK PAYASAM / SPLIT MUNG - COCONUT MILK KHEER

                                                   NAVARATHRI  DAY -3 (She is called Amba)

Amba is supposed to love this kheer too. Delicately flavoured with coconut milk, this healthy & tasty  split mung bean kheer, becomes a great Neivedhyam.

Ingredients

Split mung - 1/4 cup, soaked in hot water for 30 mts

Jaggery - 1/4 cup + 2 tbsps

Milk - 1 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Coconut milk derived from 2 tbsps coconut gratings

Ghee - 2 tsps

Cashews - 6, broken

Raisins - 2 tsps

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian; Category: Sweets/Neivedhyams

Prep time: 10 mts; Cooking time: 15 mts

Serves 4

Pressure cooked mung, allowed to boil.

2 tbsps coconut

                                                             Coconut milk extracted

Coconut milk added to the mung beans and allowed to boil for 5 mts, then the strained jaggery too added.

Cashews and raisins, roasted to golden colour added

Healthy mung bean patasam, enriched with the aroma and goodness of coconut milk here...ready for neivedhyam!!!

Categories: Festival Delicacies, Indian sweets, Janmashtami neivedhyams, Navarathri Neivedhyams, Payasams/kheers