Undrala Payasam

Hello All,
It's Vinayaka Chaturthi today, and the festival continues for 11 days. Lord Ganesha is the God of wisdom according to the Hindu mythology. That's all.........I don't want to say more about how to make Ganesha puja and all as there might be expert blogs on this. 

Lord Ganesha at my home

I am just going to tell you how to make an Vinayaka Chaturthi's special dish that is especially made in Andhra Pradesh. It is a sweet dish and is diversified depending upon the geographical locations. Within Andhra Pradesh, it is prepared in several ways. What I have made here is one of the common versions of it, which I learnt from my mom.

Ingredients:

Wheat flour 1 cup

Jaggery (brown sugar) ¾ cup

Water 5 cups
dry fruits mix ¼ cup

Ghee 2 tblsp

Cardamom (elaichi) 3

Undrala Payasam

Procedure:

Take ¾ cup of flour and mix it into dough as we do it for chapattis/rotis

You can make all tiny shapes that you like. Here I made tiny balls and tapered threads as they are easy to be made.

Put the shapes in the remaining ¼ cup of flour (dry flour). It is done so that the shapes do not stick to each other.

Boil 5 cups of water in a vessel.

Add the dough shapes to the boiling water. Let it cook for 10 minutes

Crush the block of jaggery into small pieces and add it to the above mixture.

Let it cook for another 2 minutes, while you keep stirring it occasionally.

Make a paste of the dry flour (which was left over after the shapes were added to water), and add it to the mixture. This will enable the mixture to thicken slightly and would avoid lump formations.

Cook for another 2 minutes.

Add crushed cardamoms to the mixture and switch off the stove.

Add dry fruits mix (which was toasted in Ghee) to the mixture and also the remaining ghee.

Yummy payasam is ready. Serve hot for best taste J

Cautions:

Make sure that the recipe is little soupy and not overcooked as it thickens automatically upon cooling.