Ingredients

• 1 - bottle gourd
• Sugar
• 4 cups - milk
• 3 - cardamoms
• Raisins
• Cashews
• 1 tbsp - ghee

How to Make Sorakaya Payasam

• Peel the bottle gourd, cut into small pieces and pressure cook until done.
• Mash the cooked gourd.
• Measure the quantity of mash. Take an equal amount of sugar in a pan.
• Add water half the measure of sugar and boil.
• Add the cooked gourd to the sugar syrup and boil.
• Add milk and simmer on a low flame until the milk thickens. Take off heat.
• Meanwhile, heat ghee in another pan and the cashews and raisins. Fry for 2 mins.
• Add the cashew and raisins to the payasam.
• Grind the cardamom roughly and add it too.
• Serve.