Chadachadayam / Coconut and jaggery payasam

Ingredients:

• Raw Rice - 1 glass
• Coconut - 1 big
• Jaggery - 2 1/2 cups
• Dry Ginger powder - 1 tsp
• Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Clean and cook the rice in a pressure cooker.
• Grate coconut, add 1 glass hot water and grind in mixie. Strain and take out the milk extract (this will be thick) and keep aside.
• Add 2 glasses water to the ground coconut and grind again in the mixie. Strain and keep this second extract separately.
• Similarly add 2 more glasses of water and take out a third extract of coconut milk.
• Put the rice and the third extract of coconut milk into a thick bottomed vessel and boil for 10 minutes.
• Add jaggery and boil for another 10 minutes.
• Add second extract of coconut milk, boil for 5 minutes.
• Add first extract of coconut milk and take off the gas immediately.
• Add dry ginger powder and cardamom powder.
• Heat ghee and add to the payasam.
• Serve hot or cold.

Optional - you can add banana pieces to the payasam while serving.