Wheat Lapsi Payasam

Ingredients :

• Wheat lapsi medium size - 1 cup [ clean and soaked in water. ]
• Grated jaggery - 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
• Ghee - for frying
• Saffron - little
• Thick coconut extract - 1 1/4 cup

Method :

Pressure cook lapsi adding 2 1/2 cup water. [ nicely cooked ] When the pressure goes remove from the cooker and pour it into a big non- stick vessel, add the jaggery to that and allow to boil, till the jaggery and cook in reduced flame till it melts completely. Then add the coconut extract for another 5 minutes. Remove from the fire. Fry broken cashew nuts in ghee, mix the cardamom powder in that hot ghee and add to the payasam. Garnish with saffron.

Note : Borneal flakes [ pacha karpuram ] [ optional ] can be add to the payasam. [ very little. ]
Soak saffron in hot milk for few minutes. Crush well and mix and mix with payasam when its boiling.