Payas (Rice Payesh)

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Payas (Rice Payesh)

Ingredients

  • Milk : 2 ½ litres
  • Joha rice : 30 gms
  • Ghee: to caramel sugar
  • Bay leaves : 2
  • Sugar : 100 gms
  • Raisins : 25-30
  • Cardamoms (crushed) : 4

Directions

    • Wash rice and soak for twenty minutes. Drain.
    • In a little ghee caramel sugar and fry the rice till golden in colour.
    • Boil the milk and simmer till it is reduced to half.
    • Add rice and bay leaves.
    • When the rice is cooked add sugar and raisins.
    • Keep stirring. When the payas thickens remove form fire.
    • Sprinkle cardamoms. Stir.
    • Serve Payas hot or chilled decorating with a rose petal.

    Notes: Payas is the most common sweet dish of Assam. It is also offered as a prasad.

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