Palada Pradhaman
Ingredients
- Ready made rice palada - 1/2 cup / 100g
- Sugar - 1/2 cup/150g
- Full fat milk - 1.5 litre
- Unsalted butter - 2 tsp
- Condensed milk 2 tbs
- Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
- Pinch of salt
Method
- add milk and sugar into a clean pressure cooker
- use a big cooker
- close the lid and put the weight once the steam begin to come through the stem vent
- cook on low flame for 45 minutes
- after 45 minutes turn off the flame and set this aside for another 30 minutes
- meanwhile boil about 1L water
- once it boiled, add ada and turn off the heat
- close the vessel and set this aside for 20 minutes
- now drain the ada into a strainer
- when the pressure settle down, open the cooker
- you can see that the colour of the milk has turned to light pink
- add the cooked ada into this
- turn the flame on and stir on medium flame until it thickens
- stir occasionally
- finally add salt, cardamom powder, condensed milk and butter and mix well
- turn off the flame and the Delicious payasam is ready to serve
NB : the payasam thickens as it cools down, so adjust the consistency accordingly