Comments on: Moong Dal Payasam (Pesara Pappu Payasam)

by: GR

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:49:54 +0000

Hi,

My mom makes this pretty much the same way like your recipe..except that now I customized it by adding frozen coconut powder and poppy seeds directly to the ghee after initially frying the cashews and raisins. I fry the daal red and pressure cook it in milk and jaggery. Finally once the daal is cooked I add the slightly crispy mixure of cashews,raisins,poppy seeds and coconut to the daal. Then i adjust the sweetness with sugar and finally add a pinch of cardamom.

Sweet dishes are excellent if we add both jaggery and sugar..

Guys try this method with fried poppy seeds and coconut powder …itz awesome. I usually use the frozen coconut powder directly.(you can thaw it a little bit by just leaving it out for a few mts before adding it to ghee)..In india we can use the fresh grated coconut. add poppy seeds at the end.

by: Devi

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:08:29 +0000

Hi ,

I tried this, but all the poppy seeds get stuck in the pressure valve and , and whistles dont come. What do i do, Can you please suggest.

Also, can we make a paste of poppy seeds,in blender it is not happening.
Regards
Devi

by: abc

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:21:28 +0000

Will this paysam thicken on cooling?

by: muggulu143

Thu, 27 May 2010 12:01:52 +0000

Hi this is muggulu.

awsome. I made it last night. few friends tasted it. they loved it. i have kept in the fridge and will serve chilled tonight. next time i want to try channa dal payasam.

by: aparna

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:36:36 +0000

my husband is a photographer, he loves your site for the aesthetically shot pictures (he recomends this site to any non-indian at work who wants to try and is new to Indian cooking) and I love your site for the recipies (of course the pics make it enticing to visit). Do you shoot your own pics? I must compliment you on both your photo and cooking skills.

by: lavanya

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:29:11 +0000

great pics

by: manadhii

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:06:19 +0000

Hi this is manadhii…….I tried this recipe and everyone at home loved it..they said its the most different kind of payasam they ever had…it tasted sooo good…thx to u…im going to do it again tomorrow…

by: Harini

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:32:23 +0000

I also think the amount of poppy seeds used was too much. Because we prepare a payasam called Gasala payasam in our house(quite a favorite in my family). Even that payasam does not have 1/4 cup of poppy seeds. My mother used only 1 tblsp of poppy seeds soaked and ground to a thick fine paste along with 1 tblsp rice soaked and half fresh coconut.

by: Harini

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:25:44 +0000

Hmmm. Generally I like your recipes Indira garu. The one thing that distinguishes your food blog from others is the originality of the recipe and also simplicity of the procedure. But somehow, sorry to say that this recipe turned out horrible and messy. I don’t why it turned out so? First time, I pressure cooked it, I used a vessel inside the pressure cooker, I mean I did not put pappu and milk directly into the cooker. And it was absolutely uncooked! Then again I trasferred everything directly into the cooker with milk, poppy seeds everything. This time the dal was cooked but the whole thing was so messy! The poppy seeds flew all around the cooker vessel, milk came out when whistles started coming and it did not smell as wonderful as it used when my mother prepared this(of course, in her style). Also the milk quantity stated was mor I guess, I did not like the consistency that I got(too thin or watery). So I cooked it again on the stovetop, till I got the consistency I am used to. I was particularly put off by the inefficient cooking, as I had to re-do the same thing 3 times!
All in all not quite satisfactory. I don’t mean to demean you, you are still my favorite food blogger. Its only this particular recipe that is the culprit

by: Sunita

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:18:24 +0000

Should the moong dal be half cooked? How do you get the effect of “splited moong” in the milk?

This was my first try. My kheer turned out really coarse cook and horrible. My husband just did not like it. But I want to try once more and make sure I prepare the one that I ate once in one of our south indian friends place.