EASY VERMICELLI / SEMIYA PAYASAM (KHEER)

As we are living in ‘instant’ era, I am introducing an instant and easy recipe for making vermicelli or semiya payasam (kheer).  It’s very easy and simple recipe.

 

Ingredients:

Vermicelli / Semiya ------------------ 1 cup

Milkmaid ------------------------------ ¾ cup to 1 cup (as per sweet requirement)

Cashew nuts ---------------------------10-15 numbers (split into two halves)

Raisins ----------------------------------- 10-15 numbers

Cardamom ------------------------------ 8 numbers

Ghee ------------------------------------- 1 ½ tablespoon

Water ------------------------------------ 4 ½ cups

 

Method of preparation:

1.     Dissolve the milkmaid in water and keep it aside

2.     Take cardamom seeds and powder it and keep it aside

3.     Heat the pan and pour ghee into the pan

4.     Add cashew nut and fry it and keep it aside

5.     Add raisins and fry it and keep it aside

6.     In the remaining ghee add vermicelli and fry it till it become almost brown in colour (don’t over fry it)

7.     Add the dissolved milkmaid to the fried vermicelli and stir well

8.     Close the lid of the pan and allow it to cook in medium flame

9.     Stir occasionally and when you feel it almost done, add cardamom powder and stir well

10.Once it’s cooked,add fried cashew nuts and raisins and  close the lid and keep it for 5 minutes

11.Now instant vermicelli / semiya payasam is ready to serve

 

Note:

Ø I didn't use any sugar in this recipe, as I used sweetened condensed milk instead

Ø In this recipe, I used raw vermicelli.  You can use fried vermicelli too.  If you are using fried vermicelli, don’t fry it again

Ø Here, I used Nestle milkmaid, you can use any of the skimmed sweetened condensed milk (as per the availability)

Ø If you use ¾ cup milkmaid, it will not be that much sweet. So adjust the sweet till one cup as per your taste

 

The main benefit of use of condensed milk in this recipe is, it won’t curdled like normal milk….So if we prepare for our guest in this way, tension of preparation will be less and everyone will love the taste of the payasam too….. J My neighbours love to eat my payasam…. So I am sure that you will also love the recipe… I will introduce the normal vermicelli/ semiya payasam recipe in another couple of days...

Feel free to give criticisms, comments and suggestions….. If you have more doubt, don’t forget to write to me….. J