Method
- Grind the grated cocunut with 1/4 cup of water and squeeze the milk from it and keep it aside - This is the extracted milk number 1 which would be a little thick.
- Again add 1/4 cup of water to cocunut and grind it and squeeze the milk from it and keep it aside in a separate vessel. - This is extracted milk number 2. Do not mix up the first and second squeezed milks together.
- Finely chop the mangoes after peeling the skin and grind the pieces in a mixer.
- Dry fry the moong dal till it becomes red colour.
- Mix the fried moong dal and rice and add required water and pressure cook it.
- Melt jaggery in water and remove scum.
- Add the cooked rice, and dal mixture with jaggery.
- Add 1 cup of water.
- Let the jaggery boil well till its raw smell goes off.
- To this add the mango pulp and allow the mixture to boil.
- When the raw smell of jaggery goes away, add the extracted cocunut milk number 2 to the rice mixture and let it boil for a minute.
- When the mixture starts to bubble, add the extracted cocunut milk number 1 and cardamom powder and switch off the flame.
- Heat a pan, add some ghee and add bits and fry till it turns golden brown in colour.
- Add the fried coconut bits to mambazha payasam.
Recipe & image courtesy: www.subbuskitchen.com