Oats Payasam
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • Steel cut oats – ½ cup
  • Water – 1 ½ cup
  • Milk – 3 cups ( I used 2% milk)
  • Jaggery – ½ to ¾th cup
  • Cashews – 7 nos
  • Pistachios and Almonds, roughly chopped, seperated – 1 tsp
  • Cardamom powder, freshly ground – 4 nos
Instructions
  1. Heat 1 and ½ cups water in a pan and add oats. (1:3 ratio – for 1 cup of oats 3 cups water)
  2. Cook in a medium flame until the water dries out completely for 10 minutes and transfer to a bowl.
  3. Meanwhile boil milk in another vessel.
  4. Once the milk is boiled, simmer and add ½ tsp roughly crushed almonds, pistachios and few cashews. Simmer it for couple of minutes stirring occasionally.
  5. Now add in the cooked oats and mix well. Simmer it for another couple of minutes.
  6. Meanwhile, add jaggery with very little water (1 tbsp) in the same pan used to cook oats.
  7. Add cardamom powder to oats.
  8. Cook jaggery until it dissolves completely and forms a syrup.
  9. Switch of the flame and add jaggery syrup to the oats mixture. Mix well until the jaggery syrup is well incorporated to the oats payasam.
  10. Fry cashews with ¼ tsp ghee and add them to the oats payasam. Sprinkle the remaining chopped nuts on top and serve hot or cold according to your taste. Enjoy! :)
Recipe by MyEdibleCravings at http://myediblecravings.com/oats-payasam/