Desserts and Sweets Recipes - Vermicelli Payasam

Ingredients

• 2l/3 /12 cups milk

• 50g/2 oz ghee

• 30ml/2 tbsp cashew nuts, halved

• 15ml/1 tbsp raisins

• 100g/4 oz vermicelli

• 100g/4 oz sugar

• seeds from 4 cardamom pods, crushed

• 2.5ml/1/2 tsp ground saffron

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Method:

1. Boil the milk in a heavy-based pan until reduced to three-quarters of the quantity.

2. Meanwhile, heat the ghee and fry the nuts and raisins for a few minutes. Remove from the pan. In the same ghee, fry the vermicelli until it turns reddish.

3. Add to the milk and simmer until the vermicelli is tender. Add the sugar, cardamom and saffron and turn into a serving dish. Garnish with the nuts and raisins and serve hot or chilled.