Рецепт Akkaravadisal (With Sugar)
Akkaravadisal as mentiobed in this post (the authentic one ) is the most frequented South Indian Tamil delicacy during festive times. Today's post is with a slight twist to the most classic Iyengar recipe. The sweetener is replaced with sugar. This might resemble another excellent sweet - Paal Payasam, recipe wise but it is a more luscious and richer dessert.
The richness of this desssert is directly proportional to the cooking time. Yes the more you simmer this, the more creamier and heavenky it is. In fact, in olden times even the rice was slow cooked in a vessel.
One of my favourite sweet for this week's "Thank God ìts Indegenuous Fridays" -TGIIF.
Akkaravadisal (With Sugar)
Rice simmered and slow cooked in milk sugar to get one of the most lusciius and creamy dessert.
Prep Time: 10 Mins | Cook Time: 45 Mins | Total Time: 01 Hrs | Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Raw rice
- 2-3 Tbsp Moong Dal
- 4 Cups Milk
- - 1 Cup Sugar
- 1/4 Cup Ghee
- 2 Tbsp cashews
- A pinch of Saffron strands
Instructions
Add 1 tbsp of ghee to a pan and toss the rice and moong dal until the aromatic flavours comes out and it turns to a pale colour. (2)
Cook the rice and lentils in a pressure cooker with 2 cups of milk and 2 cups of water. The amount of liquid used to cook the rice varies from rice to rice. The rice should actually over cook and be very mushy. Accordingly add the liquid by adjusting the milk and water quantity in the same ratio. (3 & 4)
In a heavy bottomed vessel, heat the remaining milk and bring it to a boil. Then simmer it and keep boiling until it reduces in half. Then add the cooked rice mixture and keep stirring frequently, so that it does not stick to the bottom.
Once the concoction thickens, add the sugar. It will loosen up a bit as soon as youadd sugar. Keep stirring it until it thickens to a semisolid state. As the mixture keeps thickening, you can add a tbsp of ghee at a time and keep stirring it.
Finally add the roasted cashews and any remaining Tbsp of ghee and turn off the flame.
Notes
The sweetness of the dish may vary as per ones taste preferrence. The richness in the dish comes from milk and ghee. So the amount of sufar might vary and use the given measurement as ball park. If you prefer less sweet reduce the above given measurement.
Roasting the rice and dal helps it to absorb the liquid more evenly and also gives a nice flavour to it.
Use a deep bottomed vessel to cook this. Since we are adding more amount of milk, it boils and spills out each time the pressure is released in the cooker. The milk may spill in to the cooker as well as spray little on the top of the cooker lid. This is the reason we try to use a deep bottomed pan. Make sure the amount of liquid is only till the half level of the vessel. If you do not have a deep vessel, cook it with minimum amount of milk and then you can use the remaining amount later in step 3.
This will thicken as it cools. So turn off the stove when it is in a semi solid state. The consistency of this will be thicker than a paal payasam and slightly diluted than Sakarai Pongal.
This post is for this week's Cooking with Cook book challenge event.