Raw rice ¼ cup
Jaggery ½ cup
Sugar ½ cup
Coconut 1 big
Or
Grated coconut 2 cups
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Dry ginger powder - 1/2 tsp
Grate coconut & extract milk in 3 stages in liquidizer increasing the water added every time to get different thickness.
1st milk (very thick) should be 1/3 cup, 2nd milk –1 cup & the very thin 3rd milk 1 ¼ cup.
Boil rice in 1 cup of water till it cooks soft & becomes slightly dry.
After almost all the water has evaporated add 2 tsp ghee & fry well.
Add sugar & jaggery & fry again.
Now add 3rd milk & boil on a medium flame for 10 mts.
Then add 2nd milk & boil for 5mts.
Finally add the 3rd milk & remove at once from the stove, stirring thoroughly.
Add cardamom powder, dry ginger powder & mix well.
Generally cashews fried in ghee are not added for this payasam.