Mango Payasam

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 kg ripe mangoes
• 1/4 kg sugar (this amount can be reduced depending on our own taste and judgment)
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 fresh coconut
• 5 cardamom pods, crushed
• 3 tablespoons ghee or 3 tablespoons butter
• 10 raisins
• 15 cashews, cracked

Recipe

• 1 peel and chop mango in coarse pieces.
• 2 lightly boil the pieces in a pot consisting of a little bit of water.
• 3 put the slightly boiled mango in a blender. coarsely blend mango allowing the pieces to remain in chunks. keep it aside.
• 4 with the two coconuts, crack in half and shred. take the shredded coconut and make 1 cup of first extract, 3 cups of second extract, and three cups of third extract.
• 5 put both the sugar and water in a pot and boil until it comes to a rather stringy consistency.
• 6 add the mango from the blender along with the third extract coconut milk to the pot consisting sugar and water.
• 7 when the mixture becomes thick, add the second extract and stir again.
• 8 after a few minutes, add the thick coconut milk or the first extract.
• 9 in the meantime, lightly fry crushed cardamom, raisins and cashew nuts.
• 10 garnish with powdered cardamom and raisins and cashew nuts fried in ghee.