Appe Payasa or appie kheer
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Appe Payasa or appie kheer is an authentic recipe from the regions of Karnataka and is prepared using small bite sized appe, biscuits made of maida or rava. Appe is crispy biscuits prepared commonly with chiroti rava or fine sooji. One can take the liberty of preparing the biscuits with maida too. Appe is usually prepared as small pooris and later broken into small bite sized biscuits. Else, you can prepared small biscuits straight away. The crispy biscuits are later soaked in the creamy milk. Appe kheer is an ultra creamy and lip smacking kheer prepared with milk, appe and finally nuts are added to it to add crunchiness to it. Prepare once and I am sure you will fall in love with its creamy texture and its delicious taste.
Ingredients:
For Appe
· 1 cup Fine Rava/ Maida
· ½ teaspoon Salt
· 1 teaspoon Ghee
· ½ cup Water for the dough
· Oil for deep frying
For Payasa
· 4 cups Full Fat Milk
· ½ Cup Sugar
· ½ teaspooon Nutmeg Powder
· ½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
· Pinch of Saffron
· 2 Tablespoon Chopped Nuts like Pista, Cashews and Almonds
Method:
- In a pan, add milk and boil over medium flame. Cook until the milk reduces to its half.
- In a bowl, add rava, ghee and mix them together. Add water little by little to knead into a dough. Leave the dough. Let it rest for an hours.
- After the resting time, take a handful of the dough and roll into a flat circle of 1 mm thickness. Cut them into small squares or into your desired shape. Instead of this step, you can roll the dough into small circle similar to pooris.
- In a small kadai, add oil and heat it over medium flame. Once the oil is hot, add bite sized dough and fry till they become golden and crispy.
- Place the fried appe in a paper towel and drain the excess oil. Repeat the same for the remaining rolled dough.
- Now, once the milk becomes thick, add fried appe to the milk and cook until appe are cooked. The cooked appe will float on the top and will be soft.
- Now, slowly add sugar to the payasa and cook until the sugar dissolves completely into it.
- Season with cardomom and nutmeg powder to the payasa.
- In a small bowl, mix saffron with a tablespoon of warm water. Pour the saffron water on top of the payasa.
- Once the payasa becomes thick, switch off the flame. One can adjust the consistency of the payasa according to their wish. If the payasa looks thick, add warm milk to the kheer.
- Add the chopped almons, fried cashews and pistachios to the kheer.
- Serve appe payasam warmly.