Fresh wheat berries are chewy and have a juicy sweet taste. Make wheat berries payasam with these fresh berries where you can cook the berries in milk and jaggery.
I got to taste this fresh wheat berries when Vaishali got it for us. Along with fresh jowar, she also got us some berries. So I made some salad, some sprouts and finally this payasam.
The kheer was so delicious and chewy, it makes an excellent choice. We are doing the third week of BM#97 and I opted to do Make these desserts theme. Things happened so randomly that I wasn't prepared for most of the themes this month.
Wheat Berries Payasam
Ingredients Needed:
1 cups Wheat Berries
3 cups Milk
1 cup Jaggery
2 tsp Ghee
Cashewnuts roasted
Wash and soak the wheat berries overnight in enough water.
Drain and keep it aside.
Heat a nonstick pan with ghee and roast the nuts and remove
Then add the drained berries and roast well.
Add milk and cook in sim till the berries are cooked soft. This takes about 30 mins or so.
Melt the jaggery and remove impurities if any.
Cook for a few minutes and add the jaggery syrup to the cooked berries.
Remove 2 ladles of cooked berries, cool it down and make a puree.
Add this back to the pot and add enough milk/water to get a flowing consistency.
Add roasted nuts for garnish.
Wheat Berries Payasam
Ingredients
- 1 cups Wheat Berries
- 3 cups Milk
- 1 cup Jaggery
- 2 tsp Ghee
- Cashewnuts roasted
Instructions
- Wash and soak the wheat berries overnight in enough water.
- Drain and keep it aside.
- Heat a nonstick pan with ghee and roast the nuts and remove
- Then add the drained berries and roast well.
- Add milk and cook in sim till the berries are cooked soft. This takes about 30 mins or so.
- Melt the jaggery and remove impurities if any.
- Cook for a few minutes and add the jaggery syrup to the cooked berries.
- Remove 2 ladles of cooked berries, cool it down and make a puree.
- Add this back to the pot and add enough milk/water to get a flowing consistency.
- Add roasted nuts for garnish.
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gayathriraani says
Love the way you have used the berries Valli. That was such an innovative kheer recipe. It looks wonderful.
Priya Srinivasan says
looks yumm valli, i m seeing fresh wheat berries for the first time, the payasam looks delish!
vaishalisabnani says
Wheat berries payasam looks fantastic , the tender berries taste so good on their own and a payasam with them must have been a treat .
harini says
Wow! that is such a nutritious bowl of payasam. I have never seen or tasted these fresh wheat berries and I am sure they are a delight to have.
Renu Agrawal Dongre says
The payasam looks so inviting and indeed nutritious. would love to try this.
Pavani says
I didn't know fresh wheat berries were cooked for cooking. Would love to try these out some time. This payasam looks nutritious and delicious.
FoodTrails says
Fresh berries are something new for me.. I have never tasted or cooked these The bowl with the dessert looks quite inviting.. Sure a healthy and delicious delight!!