Carrot Payasam

  

Ingredients: 

Carrot - 4 nos

Sugar - 1 cup

Milk - 1 and 1/2 cup (boiled)

Cardamom - (8-10)

Raisins and Cashews - (8-10 each)

Almonds - 5 (coarse powder)

Saffron - a few

Method:

 Wash and Pressure cook the carrots. Grind them with 1/2 cup milk.

Take a deep bottomed vessel,  boil the ground mixture for 5 mins

along with 1 cup milk, sugar, cardamoms and  saffron .

Fry the cashews and raisins in 1 tsp ghee and add it to the above. 

Vitamin  A enriched and tasty payasam is ready to serve ....

Athirasam

Ingredients:

Rice - 1/2 Kg

Jaggery - 500 gm

Oil - as you need 

Method :

Wash and Soak the rice in water for half an hour. 

Drain the water completely and spread the rice in a newspaper and allow ti to dry 75%

Dry grind  the rice and seive for fine powder 

In a pan put the jaggery and add a little water. 

When  jaggery dissolves completely  in water filter the jaggery  syrup from dust 

and  make  thick  syrup.

Combine the rice powder with jaggery syrup and make a dough.

Close the dough with a lid and leave it for one day.

Make small balls in the dough.

Put the ball on a milk cover  and  flattened by hand  like athirasam.

In a pan heat oil at medium heat and fry both sides of the athirasam 

till it comes golden brown in colour.

Now  the delicious  Athirasam is ready to serve...