Pineapple Payasam

Pineapples are normally consumed as fresh fruit, as cooked, as juice and even as preserved. Pineapples are rich source of Manganese and vitamin C. Pineapple also acts as an anti-inflammatory. Being a sweet lover these are my all-time favorites’ have not yet tried the pineapple payasam which is almost so easy to cook and easy to digest also.One day I came across pineapples in the supermarket at that moment pineapple payasam came to my mind, I immediately grabbed them and dumbed into my basket. Today we are going to see the preparation of yet another tasty and variety payasam’.

Prep time   :20 mins|Cook time     :30 mins |Serves  :4

Ingredients	Quantity
Pineapple ripe	4 cups
Sugar	1 cup
Thin Coconut milk	3 cups
Thick coconut milk	1 ½ cups
Ghee	2 tbsp.
Raisins	¼ cup
Cashewnuts	handful
Jeera powder	1 tsp.
Dried ginger	1 tsp.
Cardamom	4 no’s
Sago	½ cup

Method

1. Heat 1 tsp. of ghee in a pan. Fry raisins and cashew nut, remove from the pan and keep aside.In a vessel keep 2 cups of water for boiling, add in sabudana/sago to this and keep aside so that the balls starts rising up2. In another pan pour some water and put the chopped pineapples in it and let it cook. When the water has drained add sugar to it and stir for a few minutes until the sugar has melted and gives a good sugar coating for the pineapples. Grind pineapple into pulp. 3. Heat a heavy bottomed pan, add 1 cup of water and let it boil. Add pineapple puree into it and stir well and let it boil. Add cooked sabudana into the boiling mixture.4. Add the remaining ghee into it and mix well. Stir continuously and allow cooking. When the pineapple mix gets thick, add thin coconut milk. Stir well and let it boil.5. When it begins to boil, add thick coconut milk, mix well and boil for a minute. Turn off the stove and add cardamom powder and ginger powder. Add fried cashewnut and raisin, mix well.

Notes

Pressure cooker pineapple pieces in ¼ cup of water can also be done for quick method.It tastes better when it's been refrigerated and served.

If the pineapples are being added to hot milk, it may curdle. Adding condensed milk is not that necessary, but some people prefer.