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Banana Payasa or Kheer is a sweet dish prepared using ripe banana, coconut milk, sugar/jaggery and cardamom powder. This sweet dish originating from Mangalore region is a very easy and quick dessert to make.
Ingredients:
Ripened Banana, mashed – 2 cups (small variety of Nendra variety only)
Sugar – 1 1/2 cups
Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp
Ghee –Â 3 tbsps
Coconut Milk 1st Extract – 2 cups
Coconut Milk 2nd Extract – 2 cups
Cashew Nuts – 10
Raisins – 10
Salt a pinch
Method:
- Fry cashew nuts and raisins in a tsp ghee and keep aside.
- In a wok, take all the remaining ghee, mashed banana and keep stirring on medium flame until it forms a lump.
- Transfer this into a deep bottomed vessel, add sugar and stir on low flame until sugar melts.
- Now add Coconut Milk 2nd Extract and boil for 10 mins. Keep stirring frequently to avoid charring.
- Add Coconut Milk 1st Extract, cardamom powder and a pinch of salt. Continue to boil for a few more minutes until it thickens till bit.
- Add fried cashewnuts and raisins.
- Serve hot or chilled.
