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Kadala Paruppu Pradhaman | Chana Dal Payasam

September 6, 2014 By Sangeetha Priya 12 Comments

Kadala Paruppu Payasam : Onam is around the corner and my dear fellow bloggers keep on posting onam sadhya recipes so I was thinking yesterday to prepare pradhaman at least and post before the festival. Whenever we visit Bhagavathi Amman Temple in Kerala I never miss to taste those pradhamans, since from then it was my dream to make
Pradhaman at home, luckily I got that same perfect texture and taste in my first attempt!!!  I referred Swathi’s space and tried Kadala Parippu Pradhaman today, also I am sharing the recipe with you immediately!!! Before going in to the recipe in detail I wish you all a Very Happy Onam 🙂

Serves – 4-5

Ingredients

Kadala Paruppu/Chana Dal – 1/2 cup
Jaggery – 1 Cup (I took mix of Jaggery and Dark Brown Sugar)
Thick Coconut Milk – 1 Cup ( I use home made coc.milk , if you wish use store bought one)
Full fat Milk or Heavy Cream – 1/2 Cup  (Optional you can use coconut milk itself)
Ground Ginger Powder – 1/2-3/4tsp (Refer below to make ginger powder at home)
Coconut chopped – 2 Tbsp ( if you want reduce or increase the quantity, use copra for authentic)
Ghee/Clarified butter – 1 Tbsp
Cardamom Powder – 3/4 Tbsp
Cashews: 10 Numbers
Water – As Needed

Method

  • Soak Chana dhal for at least 30 minutes.
  • Cook chana dal with 1 ½ cup water in pressure cooker for 2 hisses and switch off the flame.
  • When cooled completely take 1/4 cup of boiled chana dhal and grind to fine paste, if needed add coconut milk or cooked chana dal water to grind to smooth paste.
  • In a medium sauce pan add 1 cup of water and jaggery let jaggery melt itself (Pic 1) and drain using a strainer to remove the impurities.
  • In the same pan add cooked chana dal with water(around 3/4th cup), filtered jaggery syrup cook in medium flame for 5 minutes and then add coconut milk (Pic 2).
  • After 5 minutes add thick milk or heavy cream, ground chana dal paste, cardamom powder, ground ginger/ginger powder (Pic 3) and let it boil for another 5 minutes (Pic 4) in low to medium flame or till it gets thick (Pic 6).
  • Switch off the flame and keep aside.
  • The consistency is up to you, i made very thick(Pic 6) as we get pradhaman in temples.
  • Heat ghee in a small pan add cashew and chopped coconut and fry until they become slightly brown. It takes about 3-5 minutes (Pic 5).
  • Garnish the kadala parippu payasam with ghee roasted cashews and chopped coconuts (Pic 6).
  • You can either serve it hot ot cold.

Homemade Ginger/Powder

Grated Ginger – 1/4 Cup
Dark Brown Sugar – 1 Tbsp
Granulated/Regular Sugar – 1 Tbsp
Salt – A Pinch

Method

  • Grate the ginger and toss it in dosa pan/wok for few minutes, just to get rid of moisture.
  • You can use oven also to dry the grated gingers.
  • Leave it in room temperature by spreading it over a paper towel overnight or till well dried.
  • Next day powder it with sugars (Pic 1) and salt to very fine texture (Pic 2).
  • Sieve it (Pic 3) before using in cakes/breads or other recipes (Pic 4).

Notes

  1. You can make it watery but this slowly simmered pradhaman tastes great when it is thick in consistency.
  2. In 2 hisses the dal cooks well but still it maintains the whole dhal texture in final stage too, so if you want bit mushy allow 3 hisses to cook.

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Comments

  1. Sony P

    September 9, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    Looks delicious…….. lovely clicks!

    Reply
  2. mullaimadavan

    September 9, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    Tasty payasam, nice clicks too!

    Reply
  3. Babitha costa

    September 9, 2014 at 4:28 am

    tasty one i too made this for onam yet to post,happy onam

    Reply
  4. Priya Suresh

    September 8, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    So prefect looking parippu prathaman, hard to resist to the deep brown colour.

    Reply
  5. Meena Kumar

    September 8, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    Wow u have maintained the the deep brown color and consistency required.I really like the way u have made looks perfect and needless to say yummmm.

    Reply
  6. Swathi Iyer

    September 7, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    Looks delicious

    Reply
  7. Jaleela Banu

    September 7, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    Tempting Payasam, Nice clicks

    Reply
  8. marudhus kitchen

    September 7, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    super tempting pradaman

    Reply
  9. Shama Nagarajan

    September 7, 2014 at 11:19 am

    yummy preparation

    Reply
  10. beena stephen

    September 7, 2014 at 4:57 am

    perfectly made payasam . Happy onam

    Reply
  11. Eliza Lincy

    September 7, 2014 at 4:09 am

    Tasty payasam inviting me to taste some from your preparation.The Perfect onam dessert.

    Reply
  12. Madhavi Cyber Kitchen

    September 7, 2014 at 3:18 am

    Well prepared payasam & nice presentation .

    Reply

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