Thursday, April 3, 2014

Gooror Payash - Assam Special

Assam is situted in North Eastern part of India with natural beauty, this mesmerizing state is blessed with beautiful hils, forest, valleys and the mighty river Brahmaputra.Assamese people are very simple to get to know and their cuisine is also as simple as much and very easy to cook.As like the neighbourhood states, Rice is the main ingredient of Assamese cuisine, rice is a part of their traditional breakfast and all the other dishes are prepared revolving around it. Authentic Assamese cuisine is excellent for health as it uses very small amount of oil,ghee or spices though this cuisine is somewhat rustic and blend.

For my today's post for Assam state of my long blogging marathon, am posting is this simple, delicious sweet with rice, chopped dates, jaggery and cashew.Initially i want to make their Aloo pitika, a mashed potatoes recipe which is quite a favourite item among the Assamese, as the potato are the most popular vegetable of Assam. While going through google, this Gooror Payash caught my attention from Sunita's Space. I prepared this delicious sweet pudding  few days back for our lunch and we loved it. With simple ingredients, this gooror payash tastes absolutely fantabulous, usually this payash is served thick as much as like South Indian sweet pongal, but i loved mine as semi thick and i just enjoyed it thoroughly.


Recipe Source:  Sunita Bhuyan
5cups Milk
1/2cup Rice (washed and soaked for half an hour)
1/4cup Grated Jaggery
2nos Bayleaves
1/4cup Chopped cashewnuts
1/4cup Deseeded Dates (chopped)

Heat the milk in a heavy bottomed pan over high flame.

Reduce the heat and simmer the milk for 10 minutes.

Add the rice along with bay leaves and grated jaggery to the milk.

Cook everything in simmer, stir continously to avoid sticking to the bottom of the pn.

Once the rice is half cooked, add the chopped cashewnuts, chopped dates and cook everything well until the rice gets cooked well, take care to stir constantly.

Remove from heat remove the bay leaves.

Serve ..

52 comments:

Priya said... Reply To This Comment

bay leaves in halwa is one i ever know ..hlwa looks so yummy akka

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

The rice pudding appears in so many cuisines, right? Love this with the dates!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

very very healthy and delicious payesh :) looks super tempting and i wud love to finish them right away :)

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

This reminds me of rice pudding. I like idea of adding jaggery and dates. Makes it more wholesome.

www.mahaslovelyhome.com said... Reply To This Comment

Sounds like rice kheer n luks delicious...Nice pic.

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy delicious pudding,new to me thanks for sharing

Nancy said... Reply To This Comment

I love rice puddings and trying out new versions too. I'm deeply intrigued by the use of bay leaves in your recipe. I've got to find out what that tastes like!

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

Every state has a different way of cooking kheer..this one looks nice with the addition of dates.Bookmarking.

Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

sound like arisi payasam. Looks creamy and delicious.

Lifewithspices said... Reply To This Comment

yummylicious kherr.. naan evalavu dhaan bookmark panradhu....

The Pumpkin Farm said... Reply To This Comment

interesting payash recipe...with the addition of jaggery, looks nice

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Tempting and delicious to look at payesh.

Deepa

prethika said... Reply To This Comment

delicious payasam...Adding bay leaves to sweet dish sound new to me..

Preeti Jaipal said... Reply To This Comment

This looks yum...

nandoos kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

very healthy and yummy payesh.

Sona said... Reply To This Comment

Love the flavors going into it.. Delicious and inviting dessert..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so tempting and awesome.. Divine!!

virunthu unna vaanga said... Reply To This Comment

wow love the tempting and healthy version of payasam aks... Must be give the different flavors of bay leaves...

Rafeeda AR said... Reply To This Comment

bayleaves in a sweet dish... never heard before... this sounds easy and yum..

Kaveri Venkatesh said... Reply To This Comment

yummy looking payasam...

jayanthi said... Reply To This Comment

Perfect dessert. pretty picture. like the addition of dates and jaggery.. must taste great

Lincyscookart said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy Dessert. Oh god this BM team is coming up with new recipes which we donot know. So good to know about Indian recipes.

Nalini's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Super tempting kheer,looks so fabulous..feel like grabbing it..

Angie's Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

A lovely rice dessert, Priya.

kitchen flavours said... Reply To This Comment

A lovely dessert!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

as u have said - looks so much like our Sakkara pongal, so tempting and delicious.. but bay leaf is interesting in there!!

Vikis Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Kheer looks very delicious Priya.

Priya Srinivasan - I Camp in My Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Bay leaves in payasam very new priya!!! looks very inviting and very tempting payesh!

Gloria Fernandes said... Reply To This Comment

that's a lovely dessert ...adding bay leaf is new to me...looks so tempting.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Bayleaves in dessert is very new for me... Can imagine the rich taste though with jaggery and dates... looks super yummy too.... :)

Hema said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so delicious, wish I could have a bowl now..

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

That is one yummy looking rice pudding.

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

The dessert looks so inviting Priya...

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

Kheer looks so rich and yummy !

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Such a rich and lovely dessert, looks very tempting Priya.

Finla said... Reply To This Comment

I don't remembe rth elast time i had any kind sof payasom, this looks so good.

great-secret-of-life said... Reply To This Comment

looks so good.. adding dates, bay leaves, dates gives nice twist

Varada's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

The dates must have added a very different flavor to the dish. It looks delicious.

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

Bay leaf in a payasam is very new to me...love the simple kheer...

Sharans Samayalarai said... Reply To This Comment

looks very tempting..

Gayathri Kumar said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious payash. With such a huge amount of milk, it must have tased divine...

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

Wow this looks so beautiful. I always thought milk and dates do not go together. and Bay leaf. This is awesome Priya.

Chef Mireille said... Reply To This Comment

I love any time of rice pudding

Saraswathi Ganeshan said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious pudding..love it

Kalyani said... Reply To This Comment

assamese version of chakkara pongal and am lovign that bowl :-))

Rajani S said... Reply To This Comment

I like this payasam, but do make the aloo pitika when you get time. Its excellent!

Suma Gandlur said... Reply To This Comment

I can imagine how delicious the kheer must have tasted.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Looks rich & creamy..

Padmajha said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely color to the kheer and I am wondering how it is going to taste with dates and bayleaf. Bookmarking it to try :)

MySpicyKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Payash looks divine! I am sure it tasted awesome.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

I am making this now but the milk seems a bit curdled. Is that normal? This is my second batch as I threw the first batch out when I saw it curdling.but even with fresh milk, the same has happened. Is it the bay leaf that does this? Has anyone else cooked this?

Priya Suresh said... Reply To This Comment

@Preeti Sinsunwal it may because of the jaggery you are using, once the rice gets well cooked, put off the stove and add the jaggery. Stir until its gets well mixed. Hope this helps.