Khus khus payasam | Poppy seeds kheer-How to make-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 20 min | To Serve: 4 | Type: Sweet, dessert, diwali special sweet, kheer, payasam

Ingredients

• Poppy seeds [Khus khus, kasa kasa] - 1 cup
• Milk – 3 cups
• Saffron – few
• Jaggery or sugar – ½ cup
• Green cardamom powder - ½ tbsp
• Cashew nuts - 7
• Raisins - 6
• Pistachio - 4
• Almonds [sliced] -3
• Ghee - 3 tbsp

Preparation

• Wash and soak poppy seeds in hot water for 2 hours. Then drain water & grind to fine paste with small amount of water.
• Heat ghee in a pan, roast cashew nuts, raisins, pistachios and almonds keep it aside.
• In the same pan add milk, ground paste let it boil & thickens [Apr 10 to 15 min]. Then add jaggery or sugar mix well.
• Add ghee roasted cashew nut, raisins, pistachio and almonds slices.
• Finally add cardamom powder & saffron then cut off heat.
• Serve hot or cold.

Tip

• For another variation of semiya payasam use condensed milk or jaggery
  

How to make Khus khus payasam-Stepwise pictures

Wash & soak poppy seeds in hot water for 2 hours, drain water, grind to fine paste with water

Grind in stone mortar pestle

Ghee roast almonds and cashew nut

Ghee roast pistachios

Heat milk in a pan & let it boil.

Add saffron

Add freshly ground poppy seeds mixture let it boil and thickens

Add sugar mix well

Finally add cardamom powder &cut off heat

Poppy seeds kheer is ready, garnish with nuts then serve hot or chilled