PESAHA PAAL / PESAHA MILK

 

Pesaha paal / Pesaha milk is a dish prepared in Kerala Christian families along with Passover bread named Inri appam / indri appam / pesaha appam on Maundy Thursday.

 

Ingredient:

Coconut milk (thick) ----------------------- 1/2 cup

Coconut milk (semi-thick) ----------------1 ½ cups

Jaggery/ Sarkkara -------------------------- 1 to 1 ½ cups (melted)

Rice flour ------------------------------------- 2 teaspoon

Banana (palayamthodan) --------------- 2 numbers (ripened, cut into small round pieces)

Cardamom powder ----------------------  ½ to 1 teaspoon

 

Preparation:

1.     Mix semi-thick coconut milk, melted jiggery, banana, rice flour and cardamom powder in a vessel

2.     Put the vessel in furnace and stir well

3.     Stir till the banana cook well

4.     Add thick coconut milk and heat in low flame for few minutes.

5.     Don’t boil after adding thick coconut milk

6.     Pesaha paal is ready to serve

PESAHA APPAM/ INRI APPAM / INDRI APPAM

 

Pesaha appam / indri appam / inri appam, is Passover bread prepared in Kerala Christian’s family on Maundy Thursday.  The tradition of making this is more common in almost all the Christian families.  This bread is served with pesaha milk / pesaha paal

 

Ingredients:

Rice ---------------------------- 1 cup

Urad dal ---------------------- ½ cup

Water ------------------------- as needed

Coconut ---------------------- 1 cup (grated)

Cumin seeds ---------------- 1/2 teaspoon

Garlic ------------------------- 4-6 numbers

Salt ---------------------------- to taste

 

Preparation:

1.     Rice and Urad dal wash and soak for 3 hours

2.     Grind rice and urad dal, as thick as idli batter and keep outside for 1 ½ hours

3.     Grind coconut, cumin seeds, and garlic together and add to the batter and stir well

4.     And keep for half an hour

5.     Heat the steamer with water

6.     In  the mould, which we use for making pesaha appam, grease with oil and pour the batter

7.     Add a cross using the palm leaf, which we get from church on palm Sunday and steam it

8.     Check the appam, whether its cooked or not,  a toothpick insert in the centre of the appam will come out clean

Then serve the pesaha appam with pesaha milk or pesaha paal