Sweet, inviting, and made for sharing, sabudana kheer recipe | sabakki paysa recipe | sago payasam recipe is a vegetarian Indian sweet made with sabudana / sago / saabakki / tapioca, water, and milk in about 60 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: 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.
