Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Vermicelli Payasam , seviyan, Semiya, shemai, Shavige

This is a quick sweet dish that is healthy, high on nutrition and kids will love, leave alone the kids you will too.



1. Take 200 gms of Vermicelli ( as usual try with smaller quantity)
2. Take a Frying pan or kadai. Add 1-2 tablespoons of Pure Ghee
3. once the Ghee is warm , add the vermicelli to it, and fry it on low flames. this would take a good 10-15 minutes time. you need to continuously stir it every 40 seconds so that the vermicelli doesn't get over fried.
Note: It is important to fry the vermicelli in ghee into to prevent it from becoming a paste later on after cooking.

4. Once the Vermicelli is fried, keep it aside and let it cool.
5. In the meanwhile you could boil milk on another burner, once the milk is boiled, you can allow to continue on low flame in order for it to thicken.
6. Now you can take water in a container, measure of water should be 3 times that of the vermicelli. you could use a cup to measure it.
7. Allow the water to boil, add Cardamon or elachi to it for flavour.

8. Once the water boils, add the vermicelli to it and allow it to cook. It is best if it is cooked on medium flame.
9. Once the vermicelli is cooked, you can check by seeing if you can smash it with you hands. remember it shouldn't overcook.
10. By now the quantity of water will also be less , now you can add sugar to it. One and half cup preferably( You can increase or reduce based on your requirement). Note: Sugar needs to be added only after the vermicelli is cooked if not it wouldn't cook properly.

11. Now allow the sugar to melt and allow the excess water to evaporate. you will see that the vermicelli mixture is semi liquid, now turn off the flames.
12. Now keep it aside to cool off a little bit.

13. Turn of the milk that was on flames for condensing purpose, allow it to cool down a bit as well.
14. Now you could have all possible nuts ( Cashew Nuts, raisins, almonds, pista ) fried in ghee.

15. Once you feel the milk and the vermicelli is not too hot, and cooled off a bit, you can mix the milk, the vermicelli and the fried nuts.

16. you can eat it hot or cold. Tastes excellent either ways.

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