Chathachathayam.
Enjoy the first spoonful of this vegan rice kheer and let me promise you won't be able to put your spoon down, Check out this chathachatayam payasam that is made during shastha preethi.
Equipment
- instant pot
Ingredients
for jaggery syrup
- 1 cup jaggery
- 1.5 cups drinking water
To cook the rice
- 1/4 cup Raw rice red bran ones
- 2 cups coconut milk thin
- 1 cup drinking water
to complete the payasam
- 1/2 cup coconut milk thick, first extract.
- 1/4 cup plantain bananas chopped fine.
Instructions
To get coconut milk
- Extract the thick coconut milk by grinding a cup od grated coconur with a cup o water and straing it.
- Set this aside.
- To the remaining coconut add 2 cups of water and blend again.
- Strain this to get the thin coconut milk.
To cook the rice
- Wash and add the rice to the instant pot.
- Add the thin coconut milk and the water and cook the rice of rice setting.
To make the jaggery syrup
- Crush teh jaggery cubes.
- Measure one cup and add one cup water to it and set on low heat.
- Stir from time to time so the jaggery dissolves.
- When the syrup starts boiling, a bit of the impurities start floating.
- Remove these and let the syrup boil till just a good bubbling.
- Remove and strain the strup to remove any particles that sediment.
To make the payasam.
- Once the pressure releases, open the rice and fluff it a bit.
- Add the jaggery syrup to the cooked rice.
- Mix well and let this cook for a bit.
- Once it has boiled together and the jaggery syrup combined well, add the thick extract of coconut milk, chopped plantain and mix well.
- Turn off the cooking mode and keep this payasam covered for 10 minutes for flavours to blend together.
- After 10 minutes the payasam is ready to serve.
Notes
If using canned coconut milk, i small can will do. Remove a tbsp of thick cream from the top and mix the rest with enough water to make two cups of coconut milk. Use this to cook the rice along with water. To complete the payasam, stir in the tablespoon of cream you reserved along with the plantains.
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