Name: Tender Coconut Payasam
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 cups Tender coconut (scraped from shell and cut into small pieces); 1 litre Cow’s milk; 1 cup Sugar; 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder (Elakka); 1/2 tsp Nutmeg powder (Jathikka); 2 tbsp Cornflour; 20 g Cashew nuts; 20 g Raisins (Unakka munthiri); 1 tbsp Ghee

Tender Coconut Payasam

Tender Coconut Payasam is a delicious recipe with tender coconut pieces. Tender coconut is cooked with milk and sugar is added at a later stage. It is then flavored with nutmeg powder and cardamom.

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

2 cups Tender coconut scraped from shell and cut into small pieces
1 litre Cow’s milk
1 cup Sugar
1/2 tsp Cardamom powder Elakka
1/2 tsp Nutmeg powder Jathikka
2 tbsp Cornflour
20 g Cashew nuts
20 g Raisins Unakka munthiri
1 tbsp Ghee

Instructions

For preparing tender coconut payasam, cook the coconut pieces in 1/2 cup water.
When cooked, add milk to the coconut pieces and bring to boil.(Leave about 5 tbsp of milk for later use)
Add sugar and wait for it to thicken a bit.
Heat ghee in a pan, fry the nuts and raisins and pour into milk mixture.
Take the 5 tbsp milk and mix cornflour in it. Pour into the milk mixture.
Wait for it to boil and thicken. Remove from flame.
Tender coconut payasam recipe is ready.

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Tender Coconut Payasam