easy sabudana kheer recipe | sabakki paysa recipe | sago payasam recipe
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 30 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 60 minutes
- Yield: 5 Servings
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- ¼ cup sabudana / sago / saabakki / tapioca
- ½ cup water (for soaking)
- 3 cups milk (full cream)
- ¼ cup sugar (add more if required)
- 10 cashews (halved)
- 2 tbsp raisins / dry grapes
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder / elachi powder
Method
- firstly, in a small bowl soak sabudana in water for 30 minutes. soak more to reduce the cooking time.
- further, in a thick bottomed pan add milk.
- also add soaked sabudana along with water. you can discard the water, however, i feel the starch will be lost.
- boil the milk on medium flame.
- stir occasionally making sure it doesnt stick to bottom of pan.
- boil for 5 minutes or till the sabunda turns translucent.
- now add ¼ cup sugar. add more sugar if you like paysa / kheer to be more sweet.
- also add cashews, raisins and cardamom powder.
- mix well making sure everything is mixed well.
- simmer for another 20 minutes stirring in between.
- also the milk thickens.
- finally, serve sabudana kheer or sabakki paysa hot or chilled.
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.