Oats and Dried Nuts Payasam - Oats in Sweetened Milk
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4 People
Ingredients
  • Oats, instant- 1½ cups
  • Jaggery or brown palm sugar- 5 inch slice or depending on your needs
  • Water- ¼ to ½ cup to melt the jaggery
  • Milk- 2 cups
  • Ghee- 6 tbsp
  • Cashew nuts, whole- 15
  • Almonds, halved- 2 tbsp
  • Raisins- 2 tbsp
  • Dates, chopped- 5
Instructions
  1. Place a pan over medium heat, add 3 tbsp ghee, add oats and roast in ghee till light golden. Keep aside.
  2. Roast the almonds, raisins and cashewnuts in 2 tbsp ghee till golden in color, keep aside.
  3. Add the jaggery slices to water, heat the water and let jaggery melt completely.
  4. Use jaggery according to your sweet level.
  5. Place a saucepan over medium heat.
  6. Combine milk and melted jaggery together, let heat through.
  7. Add roasted oats, keep stirring and cook for a couple of minutes, the mixture will start to thicken.
  8. Add the roasted cashew nuts, raisins, almonds and dates, combine to the oats. Cook for a minute.
  9. If the mixture is too thick, add more milk to thin it down.
  10. Taste and add more melted jaggery if needed.
  11. Finally, drizzle 1 tbsp ghee over the oats payasam and remove the pan from the heat.
  12. Serve warm in a dessert bowl.
Notes
I used light colored jaggery, hence the light color of the payasam. Use dark brown jaggery to get a beautiful brown colored payasam.

Jaggery is a must, don't replace with sugar.
Recipe by Cooking with Thas - Smart Cooking, Smart Living at https://thasneen.com/cooking/oats-and-dried-nuts-payasam-oats-in-sweetened-milk/