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"Mane Adige" means "Home Food" in kannada and this blog is all about recipes that I cook. Most of the recipes I post here will be from "Mangalooru" and "Bengalooru " regions of Karnataka,India. Rest of them are the one's which I try out by improvising the recipes got from different sources.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Kharjura Payasa / Dates Kheer


Like I said in my previous post, Diwali ws comparitively dull for us this time. We were missing home and family a lot... Naveen wasn't keeping all that well..... Inorder to get ourselves out of that mood, I decided to make something that I had never tried before. I decided to go make Kharjura payasa as both of us love dates!!! And as you all know dates have a high nutritional value. And the best part is that you need to add very little external sweetener as the dates are already sweet!! So, here goes the delicious, yet healthy diwali recipe....Couldn't have asked for more!! :). This will be my entry for AFAM-Dates event hosted by Chandrika of Akshayapatra. Thanx Chandrika for hosting!! :)


Ingredients:

1 cup Dates, deseeded and chopped into small pieces
1-2 tbsp Jaggery, powdered
1 tsp Elaichi/Cardamom, powdered
3-4 tbsp Cashews
2 cups Thin coconut milk, fresh or canned
1/2 cup Whole milk (optional)
Method:

  1. Keep aside few pieces of dates for garnishing and grind the rest to a smooth paste along with half the coconut milk.
  2. Empty the paste into a heavy bottemed pan and bring to boil on the stove. Add the remaining coconut milk, jaggery, elaichi and boil well. If the mixture is too thick, add milk and boil for some more time. Adjust the sweetness according to your taste.
  3. Remove from stove; garnish with the remaining date pieces and serve hot.

12 comments:

FH said...

Lovely color and I can imagine the taste , YUM! Hope you are recovered now. Hugs!:))

musical said...

The payasam looks really great, Ramya! I love the color and the sweeteners here: jaggery and dates, thats really mellow sweetness. A bowl of this payasa, chilled would be great!

Anonymous said...

Thats such a nice & beautiful sweet...

Seena said...

Ramya, I was thinking to make some dates dishes, since lots of dates of packs here..just now found one in Jeena's and yours too..thanks, this looks very easy..

Sagari said...

coconut milk and dates very new looks deleciousssssssss

Seema said...

The Payasam looks great! I have never heard nor tasted this kind of payasam with dates.. Can u send me some??? :-)

Timepass said...

Lovely recipe. First time here, u have a nice collection of recipes.

Swaruchy said...

Great looking Kheer dear....YUM :-))
Ramya....Please don't mind dear..I won't be commenting a few months as I have a lot of impending academic work....will miss u...and will be back in no time...Hope u understand dear :-)

Vanamala Hebbar said...

Hi Ramya

Healthy payasa. BTW yours Kodubale pic looks good, mine is almost same method but except jeera.

Unknown said...

Hi remya:) Date kheer looks out of the world yummmmy:) Beautiful color:)

Anonymous said...

Payasam looks great! I made it today. Pls let me know what is the shelf life of this payasam. Can I refrigerate and serve it after a couple of days?

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