Payesh, a pudding made with milk, sugar and generally rice. But here’s presenting a unique Payesh recipe with the gourd. An out of the box dessert yet a mouth watery dish for the sweet tooth.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Ingredients (for two people):
Gourd – 1/2
Milk – 1 ltr
Ghee
Cardamom (Elaichi) – 2 pcs
Bay leaves – 2 pcs
Cashew (Kaju)- 6 pcs
Raisin (Kismish)- 6 pcs
Sugar – 1 cup
Process:
- Finely chop the gourd or nicely grate it with the help of a grater.
- Wash the chopped/grated gourd thoroughly.
- Boil the chopped/ grated gourd. When the gourd gets boiled nicely, strain the excess water with a strainer.
- Take a pan and add ghee to it.
- Add the boiled gourd on the pan and saute it.
- Take a heavy bottom pan and heat the milk.
- Add cardamom and bay leaves to it. Heat the milk has reduced to almost half.
- When the milk thickens and turns to kheer, add the ghee-fried gourd into it.
- After the gourd gets boiled in the milk, add the sugar, cashew and raisins to it.
- Turn off the flame when the sugar gets completely dissolved into the Payesh. Scrape milk solids from the sides of the pan and add to Payesh.
- Take the Payesh out and serve it in the bowl. hot and sweet.
