Rice Payasam (Milk Rice) - Navaratri Special

Hi readers, Devi Navaratri(Sharad Navaratri) started from today!! Dussehra is the most popular Hindus Festival. Here in Andhra Pradesh Dussehra is also called Vijaya Dashami. Vijaya means victory Dashami means 10th day. The first nine days celebrates as "Maha Navaratri". The nine days of celebration of a worship of Lord Durga matha in different avatars. Every year this festival falls in the month of September or October. Here Dussehra celebrates grand with full of colors, flowers and with different naivedyams!! 

On these Navaratri days, I do worship Lord Durga Matha with different flowers like Gulabi, Chamanthi, Malli, Paarijatha, Ganneru, Sampangi, Virajaji, etc. Today I worshiped Lord Durga matha in the form of Bala Tripura Sundari with Chamanthi flowers. I offered Vadapappu, Panakam, Ksheerannam, and Sanagalu for Bala Tripura Sundari Devi. Usually, I do Kumkuma Pooja for Lord Durga and chant all stotras related to matha Durga. Out of all stotras Mahishasura Mardini stotram, Ashtalakshmi stotram, Lalitha sahasranama stotram, Annapoorna ashtakam, are the most powerful stotras. These Mahanavaratri Naivedyams are very delicious and delectable. I started Mahanavaratri with a sweet 'Ksheerannam'(Milk Rice) for Lord Balatripura Sundaridevi. I have taken pics of naivedyam and posted the recipe on my blog. Let us see the ingredients and procedure to make "Milk Rice KSHEERANNAM.

Ingredients :

Full cream milk - 6 cups

Rice    - 1 cup

Yellow moong dal - 2 tablespoons

Jaggery  - 2cups (grated or powdered) 

Ghee   -  4 spoons

Cashew nuts - 10 no

Raisins -  8nos

 Elachi powder    - 1/4 tablespoon

Procedure :

1. Wash the rice, and yellow moong dal several times with clean water and drain. Keep aside

2.  Boil the milk in a thick-bottomed vessel on medium flame. Stir the milk continuously to avoid the milk solids from sticking at the bottom.

3.  To the boiling milk, add drained rice and moong dal and stir.

4.   Cook the rice till it becomes mushy and soft. Stirring once in a few minutes is needed.

5.  Once the rice is cooked well in milk, add ghee and elachi powder, mix well and mash the rice with a ladle. Switch off the flame.

6. Now add grated jaggery to the cooked rice and mix to blend everything well.

7. Heat a small pan with 1 tablespoon of ghee, add broken cashew nuts, fry them till golden, then add raisins, stir them to swell, and pour this to rice payasam.

8. Garnish with fried Cashew nuts and raisins.

9. Ksheerannam is ready to serve.

Note:  All cooking processes should be done on low flame.

Offer this Naivedyam to Lord Bala Tripura matha and get blessed with her blessings:) You can surprise your friends and your family members too with this creamy, rich rice desert "Ksheerannam" on this festival day !! Serve it hot, celebrate the festivals with colors and joy !!