Kothumai Rava Payasam

Ingredients

• Wheat Rava - 1 cup
• Jaggery - ¾ cup
• Coconut for seasoning - 20 flakes/ small pieces
• Coconut for coconut milk - 20 pieces (makes 1 cup of coconut milk)
• Elaichi - 2 buds (optional)
• Ghee - 3 tbsp
• Milk - ½ cup

Preparation

*Coconut Milk 1 - grind the coconut pieces to obtain coconut milk. Filter. Keep the milk aside. This is Coconut Milk 1.

• 20 pieces of Coconut

**Coconut Milk 2 - Add a cup of water to the filtered out coconut and grind again. This is Coconut Milk 2.

• Filtered Coconut from Coconut Milk 1
• 1 cup Water

***Roasted Coconut-Roast the coconut flakes in ghee till they turn brown.

• 20 flakes of Coconut
• 2 tbsp Ghee

Procedure

Prepare the *Coconut Milk 1, **Coconut Milk 2 and ***Roasted Coconut.

Cook the Wheat Rava in a cooker for three whistles. For each cup of wheat rava use 2 cups of water..

• 1 cup Wheat Rava
• 2 cups Water

Warm ¼ cup of water and dissolve the jaggery in it. After dissolving the jaggery, filter the liquid to remove any dirt/stone in it. Now boil the filtered liquid for 10 minutes more till you reach 1 string consistency.

• ¼ cup Water
• ¾ cup Jaggery

In a bottom heavy pan, mix the boiled Wheat Rava, the Filtered Jaggery liquid and **Coconut Milk 2. Keep it on the stove for about 10 minutes till it thickens.

• Cooked Wheat Rava
• Filtered Jaggery liquid
• **Coconut Milk 2

Pour *Coconut Milk 1 into the vessel just before turning off the stove. (Note: The contents should not be heated after adding *Coconut Milk 1 else the coconut milk will go bad.)

• *Coconut Milk 1

Mix the ***Roasted Coconut and the ghee with the contents in the vessel.

• ***Roasted Coconut
• Leftover 1 tbsp Ghee

Mix milk/elaichi if needed when serving payasam (optional).

• 2 Elaichi
• ½ cup Milk

Our Kothumai Rava Payasam is ready to be served!

Beans Poriyal

Ingredients

• Chopped Beans - ½ kg
• Sugar - ½ tsp
• Oil - ½ tsp
• Mustard Seeds - ½ tsp
• Cumin Seeds - ½ tsp
• Urad Dal - ½ tsp
• Hing - ½ tsp
• Coconut - 3 tsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation

Wash and chop beans to a fine size as can be seen in the picture.

• 1/2 kg beans

Procedure

Put the pan on the stove and heat some oil in it. Add the mustard, curry leaves, cumin seeds, hing, urad dal and red chillis for the seasoning.

• ½ tsp Oil
• ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
• ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
• ½ tsp Urad Dal
• ½ tsp Hing

When the seasoning starts to crackle (in about 15 secs), add the beans to the pan with the sugar. The sugar makes sure the color of the beans is retained. Saute on a low flame for about 5 minutes until the vegetable is about ¾ cooked. Try not to overcook it so that the beans remains crunchy.

• ½ kg Chopped Beans
• ½ tsp Sugar

Now add salt as per your taste and cook for another minute.

• Salt as per Taste

Take the pan off the stove and add the coconut.

• 3 tsp Coconut

Our beans poriyal is ready to be served! Eat this with hot chapati & dal or steamed rice & sambhar :)