Thengai Payasam is a tasty, melt in mouth kheer made by simmering coconut with rice & jaggery syrup. Thengai Payasam is an alternate to the regular kheers for festivals and will be liked by all. Thengai Payasam fills the tummy & heart!
Arisi Thengai Payasam is a special traditional payasam made with rice and coconut.I happened to see the recipe of this coconut payasam in a magazine long back , I just jotted down the recipe and this helped me to make this special payasam post for this Tamil New Year 2015. You can check out other Tamil New Year Recipes and Payasam Recipes that I posted earlier.
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Thengai Payasam | Coconut Kheer
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup grated coconut tightly packed
- 2 heaped tablespoon raw rice
- 1/3 cup jaggery
- 1/4 cup boiled milk
- 2 and 1/2 cups water
- 2 teaspoon ghee
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
- 6 whole cashew nuts broken
- 10 raisins
Instructions
- Soak jaggery in warm water(till immersing level) , crush it well.
- Then heat it up until it is slightly thick (no string consistency needs to be checked).Strain and keep aside.
- Rinse rice well and soak in water for at least 30mins,Set aside.
- In a mixer grind rice and coconut together with little water to a coarse paste.
- Boil water, keep in low flame and add the coconut rice paste and let it cook in medium flame for 10mins.
- Once the rice gets cooked soft and the mixture is in porridge consistency add jaggery syrup.
- Stir well and cook for 3mins,add cardamom powder and stir well.
- Meanwhile in a tadka pan with ghee fry cashews and raisins.
- First add cashews once it starts to brown add raisins, let it bubble up then switch off.
- Switch and let the payasam cool down for 10mins.
- Then add milk and stir well.
- Add ghee fried cashews and raisins, give a quick stir.
- Serve Thengai Payasam hot / warm. I love it chilled 🙂
Notes
- Use milk at room temperature. Boil milk and cool down. While adding milk make sure the payasam is not too hot else it will curdle.
- Don not grind the rice coconut mixture to a fine paste, it should be coarse only then you will get texture in your payasam.
- Milk can be skipped but I recommend adding it as it gives a richness and flavour to the payasam.
Thengai Payasam Recipe Step by Step
- Soak jaggery in warm water(till immersing level) , crush it well. Then heat it up until it is slightly thick (no string consistency needs to be checked).Strain and keep aside.
- Rinse rice well and soak in water for atleast 30mins,Set aside.In a mixer grind rice and coconut together with little water to a coarse paste.
- Boil water, keep in low flame and add the coconut rice paste and let it cook in medium flame for 10mins.
- Once the rice gets cooked soft and the mixture is in porridge consistency add jaggery syrup.
- Stir well and cook for 3mins,add cardamom powder and stir well.meanwhile in a tadka pan with ghee fry cashews and raisins.First add cashews once it starts to brown add raisins, let it bubble up then switch off.
- Switch and let the payasam cool down for 10mins.Then add milk and stir well.Add ghee fried cashews and raisins, give a quick stir.
Serve hot / warm.I love it chilled.
Expert Tips
- Use milk at room temperature.Boil milk and cool down.While adding milk make sure the payasam is not too hot else it will curdle.
- Don not grind the rice coconut mixture to a fine paste, it should be coarse only then you will get texture in your payasam.
- Milk can be skipped but I recommend adding it as it gives a richness and flavour to the payasam.
Shami Immanuel
Mouth watering receipe. All your receipes are useful. And also Congrats for getting featured on Dhinakaran- vasantham supplement book. Great. Keep going and all the best.
Supriya Nair
The payasam looks heavenly…
Magees kitchen
Yummy and Drool Worthy Kheer.
kalarani karthick
Simoly superb…! 🙂 keep rocking…!
jyothsna kasiralla
Awesome.
I prepared and came out very well
Rashika
Nice recipe to try. Can I use milk instead of water to cook the coconut rice paste?
Sharmilee J
You can but it will become too thick also the taste and consistency might vary so I would suggest to cook in water itself