Aval Kalkandu Payasam/Rice Flakes & Rock Candy Kheer

Who will say no if you get a new recipe to give a try, eventhough i love making new dishes  which pops up quite often in my small brain,but some new recipes will tempt you to give a try immediately. One among those temptation is this Payasam aka Kheer, i crossed this dish few days back while going through a tamil magazine supplement, the simplicity of this dish caught my eyes and for Janmashtami celebration i prepared this easy breezy kheer for pooja. They came out simply fabulous, rock candy took care of the sweetness in this kheer. You can make this kheer in less than 15minutes if you are using thin rice flakes. Even thick rice flakes works wonder too but it may take bit time to cook when compared to thin flakes. However this kheer is definitely one of the easiest kheer,one can prepared quickly even if you have sudden guests at home.

Usually rock candies aka kalkaandus will be grounded before adding into the famous sweet kalkaandu pongal, but in this kheer you can add them directly and cook along with rice flakes and milk mixture. Rock candy or rock sugar is easily available in every Indian stores. South Indians makes sweet pongal, sweet vadais with this rock sugar.If you dont have rock candy, but you would like to make this kheer just replace the rock candy with usual sugar or jaggery syrup and adjust the sweetness.This post goes  for the CC Challenge of the month.

1/2cup Thin rice flakes
2cups Milk
1/2cup Rock candy/kalkandu
Few cashew nuts
1tbsp Ghee
2nos Green cardamom (crushed)
Chopped pistachios (for topping)

Dry roast the rice flakes in a pan, add the milk, rock candy and cook everything in medium flame.

Once the rice flakes gets thick and the payasam starts slightly thick,put off the stove.

Add the crushed cardamoms,give a stir.

Heat the ghee, fry the cashew until they turns brown, add this fried cashews with the ghee to the payasam.

Serve hot topped with pistachios.