Kanang means sweet potato. Sweet Potato has powerful nutritional punch in it. They are high in fiber content. This veggie is inexpensive and has amazing nutrients needed for a healthy body. In olden days sweet potato creeper can be seen in backyards of houses. Our elders use to charr the sweet potatoes on charcoal and give to children as a evening snack. Charcoal roasted vegetable has a wonderful flavor.
Today I want to give the recipe of payasam which is called godshe in konkani. The sweet potato cubes drenched in jaggery syrup and coconut milk garnished with cardamom and ghee is a wonderful winter dessert.
Today I want to give the recipe of payasam which is called godshe in konkani. The sweet potato cubes drenched in jaggery syrup and coconut milk garnished with cardamom and ghee is a wonderful winter dessert.
- Sweet Potato – 1 no (chopped)
- Jaggery – 3/4 th cup
- Coconut Milk – 1 cup
- Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
- Ghee – 1tsp
Method:-
- Remove the skin of the sweet potato and chop them into squares. Immediately put them in water to avoid discolouration, otherwise it will turn black in colour.
- In a cooking vessel add the chopped sweet potato cubes and enough water and cook till very soft. When touched should get mashed, that’s how we know it is cooked well.
- To the cooked veggie add jaggery and wait till it is completely melted.(can powder the jaggery and add which dissolves faster)
- Add coconut milk and cook on slow flame. Wait till the bubbles appear on the sides of the vessel.
- Now switch off the gas. Sprinkle cardamom powder and teaspoon of ghee. The consistency of the payasam should be little thick and not watery. Serve warm or cold.
Note:-
- Cook sweet potato very well, so that the payasam consistency is little thick. Otherwise it goes watery.
- You can mash a tbsp. of cooked sweet potato and add to give a good texture to the payasam.
- I have ground 1 cup coconut with 1/2 cup water to a fine paste and then strained it through a sieve and collected the coconut milk. You can also use readymade coconut milk or powder too.
- Few people add white rava to the cooked sweet potato before adding the jaggery, for the thick consistency of the payasam .But I like it this way.
- Fried nuts are and ghee are optional. If you wish can garnish and serve