Fragrant, comforting, and easy to serve as a complete meal, Pal Payasam Recipe | Rice Kheer - 2 Ways Secret Tips | Rice Payasam is a vegetarian north indian, south indian sweet made with rice, milk, and sugar in about 40 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 6 Servings
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: north indian, south indian
Ingredients
- ¼ cup rice
- 6 cup milk
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- 10 cashew / kaju (halves)
- 2 tbsp raisins / kishmish
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
Method
- firstly, in a large kadai stir and boil 5 cup milk.
- add in soaked rice and stir well.
- simmer and cook for 15 minutes or until the rice grains are cooked well.
- mash the rice slightly until the kheer turns creamy.
- now add 1 cup milk and adjust consistency.
- also, add ¼ cup sugar and stir well.
- boil for 3 minutes or until the kheer turns creamy and sugar is dissolved completely.
- pour the roasted nuts over kheer and add ¼ tsp cardamom powder. mix well.
- finally, enjoy rice kheer hot or chilled for a week when refrigerated.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.