Kambu Payasam

Prep Time:10 m      Cook Time:25 m

Serves:3

Ingredients

Kambu                  - 1/2 cup

Milk                       - 1& 1/2 cup

Water                      - 1 cup

Jaggery                   - 2 tbl sp

Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee                        - 1 tbl sp

Cashews                  - few

Raisins                     - few

Method

• Wash kambu/pearl millet and remove any husks if present.Soak it in water for half an hour.Grind it into a paste with  half a cup of milk or water as desired.This has a unique earthern flavour.
                              
     
• Heat two teaspoons of ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel and add this paste into it.Add the remaining milk and water little by little stirring continuously.the mixture will start bubbling and thickens and you can get the aroma of the cooked kambu.
     
• Add grated jaggery and cardamom powder and this stage.Stir it for five more minutes and add the nuts and raisins roasted in ghee.Serve hot.
                             
  

Little Words

• Milk and water ratio can be adjusted accordind to desire.
• Once it cools it thickens,so you can reserve half a cup of milk and add it at the time of serving too.
• A healthy sweet....