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 ..