Ingredients

• Basmati rice - 2 tbsp
• Milk - 2 litres
• Sugar - 250 ml
• Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp
• Rose essence - 8 drops
• Cashew nuts - 1/2 cup
• Currants - 2 tbsp

How to Make Paal (Milk) Payasam

• Cook the rice in 1.5 litres of milk, stirring all the time.
• Add the sugar and boil for some time.
• Pour the rest of the milk and boil till it is reduced to 1000 ml.
• Cut the nuts into long thin slices and put them into the boiling milk along with currants.
• Take payasam off the fire and stir till it is cold.
• Add the essence and the cardamom powder.