Coconut milk rice

This is coconut rice with a difference. It is a simple dish that has the sweet aroma of coconut milk and tempering of curry leaves and black gram. It tastes heavenly when eaten alone or with some stir fried vegetable. I make this on summer days as it is cooling.

Ingredients:

White rice - 2 cups
Coconut milk - 2cups
Cardamom powder - 1tsp
Curry leaves - few
Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Black gram - 1tsp
Red chilly - 1(broken into 2)
Coconut oil -2tsps
Salt to taste

Method:

Add the coconut milk, cardamom powder, salt and two cups water to the rice. Cook in a pressure cooker till done. Temper mustard seeds, black gram, red chilly and curry leaves in coconut oil and garnish the rice.

Lasagne sheet payasam

I made this payasam as some lasagne sheets were lying idle in my kitchen.  This payasam will look like pal ada paradhaman and taste like vemilcilli payasam.

Ingredients:
Lasagne sheets - 2
Sugar - 1cup
Milk -2cups
Condensed milk - 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1tsp

Method:
Break the lasagne sheets into small pieces. Soak in water for 10 minutes and cook in the same water for another 10 minutes. Then add the milk and boil. Finally, add the condensed milk and simmer for few seconds. Cool for 5 minutes before adding sugar and cardamom powder.