Pressure cooker palpayasam recipe

Pressure cooker palpayasam recipe

Palpayasam is one of famous south indian delicacy and in north it’s called as kheer. Traditionally it is cooked on stove top, adding rice, sugar and milk and stirred for long time so that rice is well cooked in milk and the sweet and delicious dessert is made

My family loves palpayasam and its one of the kid’s favourites too... Over the years I have started to make it in the pressure cooker. I have many friends who do the same.

Ingredients

Rice – ¼ cup

Milk – 3 cups

Sugar - 1/3 cup

Saffron – few stands (optional)

Cardamom powder – a pinch (optional)

Method

• In a pressure cooker (I use a 2 litre stainless steel pressure cooker) add the rice, 2 cups of milk and sugar and  keep it on gas stove on low flame. Wait until you hear the first whistle and switch off the stove after 5 minutes.
• Open the lid once the pressure is released automatically.
• Use a potato masher and mash the rice randomly.
• Add the saffron and cardamom powder at this stage and mix well, also add a cup of hot milk to this. Mix well again.

Note: I sometimes grind few almonds (about 5-10) in the payasam.

you coudl also increase the sugar quantity depending on your taste.

Thanks and regards

Chaithanya