Red rice flakes payasam | Tamil New Year recipes

Red rice flakes payasam is hearty, flavorful dessert you can make on festival occasions or even for your sudden sweet cravings. Full video, step by step photos.

Many years back, I mean more than 10 yrs, I heard my fried saying she had a several servings of red rice flakes payasam in an lunch get together.

She asked me to try as well, but I did not take it serious as I make aval payasam very often.

In recent few years only I have started buying red rice flakes and mostly make upma or north Indian style poha. I prepare whenever I feel like having something filling.

But this is the first time I am making payasam and totally in love with it. So much flavour and texture in it.

📋 Ingredients

• Red rice flakes (I used thick vaierty)
• Sugar
• Milk
• Cashews
• Condensed milk (optional)

📝 Summary

First sieve out any impurities/ dust in red rice flakes. Roast it well in ghee and pressure cook it with milk and water for a whistle. Once done, add sugar and condensed milk. Adjust the consistency as needed with milk or water. Simmer for couple of minutes and finally garnish with some ghee fried crisp cashews.

📖Variations

You can skip the condensed milk and add sugar itself fully. Just one more tbsp, so total 3 tablespoon of sugar is enough.

Jaggery can be added in place of sugar. Use ¼ cup of jaggery for this recipe.

🎥 Video

Here's how to make Red rice flakes payasam video

Other Tamil new year recipes:

• Mango pachadi
• Veppam poo rasam
• Sakkarai pongal
• Full lunch menu idea
• Paruppu vadai
• Medhu vadai

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Red rice flakes payasam | Tamil New year recipes

Red rice flakes payasam is hearty, flavorful dessert you can make on festival occasions or even for your sudden sweet cravings. Full video, step by step photos.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Author Raks Anand

Servings 3

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Pressure cooker, 3 Litre

Cup measurements

Ingredients

• ¼ cup Red rice flakes I used thick variety
• 2 tablespoon Sugar
• 1 cup Milk
• 5 Cashews
• 2 tablespoon Condensed milk optional
• 2 teaspoon Ghee

Instructions

• Sieve red rice flakes in a metal strainer. Hand pick any impurities.
• In a small pressure cooker, add a teaspoon of ghee and roast the red rice flakes. Roast for 2 minutes in low flame.
• Add ½ cup water and 1 cup milk to it. Pressure cook for 1 whistle in medium flame.
• Once done, add sugar, condensed milk. If you want you can add 1 powdered cardamom at this stage.
• Simmer for couple of minutes. Switch off the flame and mix golden roasted cashews in the payasam.

Video

Notes

• I used thick variety, you can also use thin variety. It will get cooked faster. So you can even quick release the pressure or do over stove top.

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📸 Step by step photos

1. Sieve red rice flakes in a metal strainer. Hand pick any impurities. In a small pressure cooker, add a teaspoon of ghee and add the red rice flakes.
   
2. Roast for 2 minutes in low flame. Add ½ cup water and 1 cup milk to it.
   
3. Pressure cook for 1 whistle in medium flame. Let pressure release naturally. It will be soft in texture.
   
4. Once done, add sugar, condensed milk. If you want you can add 1 powdered cardamom at this stage.
   
5. Add ½ cup more milk and simmer for couple of minutes. Switch off the flame and mix golden roasted cashews in the payasam.
   

Notes

• I used thick variety, you can also use thin variety. It will get cooked faster. So you can even quick release the pressure or do over stove top.

I love to have red rice flakes payasam warm, the best.