Name: Aval Paagu / Poha Cashew Kheer recipe by Sowmya Sundar at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Thin poha 1 cup; Jaggery 1 cup; Milk 3 cups; Cashews 10 + 6; Cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon; Ghee 1 teaspoon

ABOUT Aval Paagu / Poha Cashew Kheer RECIPE

This is a traditional village style payasam or kheer made in south india. We use mud pots to prepare this .It is a very simple as well as rich dessert

Ingredients Serving: 4

Thin poha 1 cup
Jaggery 1 cup
Milk 3 cups
Cashews 10 + 6
Cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon
Ghee 1 teaspoon

Instructions

Wash poha once with water and drain.Let it rest for fifteen minutes. Soak ten cashews in hot water for ten minutes
In a kadai add milk and poha and allow it to boil in medium flame until poha is well cooked
In the meanwhile grind the soaked cashew into a fine paste.Also boil jaggery with little water and filter the impurities.
Add the cashew paste , filtered jaggery syrup and cardomom powder and cook for few more minutes.
Finally roast remaining cashews in ghee and add to the kheer

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