8 March, 2019

CARROT LENTIL PAYASA/KHEER

Posted in : BEGINNERS/LEARNER'S/RECIPES, DESSERTS, Payasa| Kheer| on March 8, 2019 by : Divya Suresh

We make both lentil payasa and carrot payasa separately right ? But today I have mixed them both and made a new kind of payasa and named it as carrot lentil payasa. The word payasa (Kannada) translates to Kheer. And the lentil used in this recipe is split green gram/moong dal/hesaru bele. Actually my sis-in-law Kalpana Srinivas provided me with this recipe. I’m not aware of it’s original/basic source. She has given me this recipe long back and I tried making it today. This is very delicious…too yummy. We can make this payasa using either winter (red) carrot or Orange one and Instead of using dairy milk, we can use coconut milk or equal quantity of both. Sugar has been used in the original recipe, But here I have used jaggery.

Some other payasa recipes on my blog are – appe payasa , apple-almond kheer , gasagase/Poppy seeds payasa , avalakki/rice flakes/poha payasa , sabbakki/sago/sabudana Payasa , akki-kadalebele payasa , kadalaparippu/kadalebele/chana dal payasa , hesarubele Payasa , huruli-shavige payasa , batavi payasa

Ingredients : measuring cup used is of 250 ml

Split green gram/moong dal/hesaru bele – 1/4 cup
Water – 1 cup
Grated carrot – 1/2 (very tightly packed)
Jaggery – 3/4 cup
Water – 1/4 cup
Milk – 1 cup

Others :

Ghee – 2 tsp (I have used this much, use as per choice)
Broken cashew nuts – 2 tbsp
Raisins – 1&1/2 tbsp
Cloves – 4 nos.,
Saffron strands – 1/4 tsp
Cardamom powder – 1/8 tsp

PROCEDURE :

Cook split green gram/moong dal/hesaru bele in 1 cup of water (I cook it in an open vessel)
Dissolve jaggery using 1/4 cup of water, no need to thicken it, just dissolve to remove the impurities
Soak saffron in the milk
Heat ghee in a pan, add in cashew nuts, raisins, cloves n roast them, then add in grated carrot and roast till it releases nice aroma and turns soft (do not burn)

Add in strained jaggery syrup cook for a minute, then add in cooked lentil/dal/bele

Stir well while combining everything continuously on high heat for 2 minutes, turn the heat to low, cover and cook it while stirring in between
Remove from the heat when it becomes thick