Dates & Vermicelli Payasam


A very easy Payasam recipe for  festive or normal days


the recipe

Dates – 15
Water – 200 ml
Vermicelli – ½ cup
Water – 100 ml
Milk – 100 + 300 ml
Sugar – 4 tbsp
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Almonds & Cashewnuts – ½ cup
ingredients to be powdered

Cardamom – 5
Cumin – 2 pinch
Dry Ginger Powder – ½ tsp or 1/3rd inch piece

The combination of cardamom, cumin and dry ginger powder is used to balance the sweetness from the dates.
the method

Deseed and chop the dates and cook it in water till mushy. Once the dates are cooked, stir it well to form the consistency of a pulp. Keep it aside.

Heat ghee in a saucepan and fry the cashewnuts and almonds. Drain the nuts and keep it aside. Saute the vermicelli in the remaining ghee and add 100 ml water and 100 ml milk and let the vermicelli cook. Once done add the remaining milk, cooked dates, sugar and fried nuts. Powder the cardamom, cumin and dry ginger with about 1 tsp sugar and add it to the payasam. Stir well and serve hot.

28 comments:

  1. Looks great.

    Thanks for selecting this healthy kheer from my blog.
    Hema's Adugemane

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  2. this looks yum, on my to-do for the weekend... please let me know, for how many people would the above measurement suffice? thanks...

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  3. great dessert with lots of health factor too !! would love to make this soon

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  4. yummy n delicious payassam.....

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  5. Nice change from the usual semiya payasam...

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  6. 1st time iam seeing this..looks yumm.vl try 2 make this 4 sure..thanx 4 sharing dear......
    Maha

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  7. yummy...bookmarking, a must try for me

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  8. Nice delicious.. i have never tried dates in payasam before..

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  9. so unique with dates....you have a wonderful blog with lots of unique recipes...it's my first time here
    Mireille
    http://gourmetglobal.blogspot.com

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  10. Roshan,

    Congratulations you have been given 2 awards. Please collect them here.
    Awards for you

    Cheers,
    Hema.

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  11. wow great looking payasam...love to have a spoonful

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  12. tht's a nice recipe and fine preparation

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  13. delicious pudding.
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    http://www.foodydelight.com/

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  14. The clicks make me drool here.loved the colour n combo and payasam looks very tatsy too.......
    MAha

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  15. Hi. Anything with dates is definitely tasty and healthy. Thanks for linking it to 'Only'.


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  16. vermicilli is my fav, never tried with dates.. will try and an award waiting for you at my space.. share and enjoy Noel collections

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Try it and let me know if you wanted to make some changes or if you made some changes and share the idea!

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