Wheat Pudding - Gothambu Pradhaman
Wheat Pudding is a healthy dessert from Kerala. This is made with broken or cracked wheat, jaggery and coconut milk flavored with cardamom and dry ginger.
Servings: 5
Ingredients
- Broken wheat / cracked wheat – 1 cup
- Tapioca balls – 1/4 cup
- Coconut milk – 1.5 cup
- Jaggery – 2 cups
- Water – 4 cups
- Ghee/ clarified butter – 3 tbsp
- Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp
- Dry ginger powder – 1/4 tsp
- Raisins
- Cashew nut
Instructions
- Mix jaggery with 1 cup water in a bowl. Boil until the jaggery melts and becomes a thick syrup. Keep aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pressure cooker. Add the broken wheat and tapioca balls into the ghee. Fry on medium heat for 3 minutes.
- Add half of the jaggery syrup and 3 cups of water into the cooker. Mix well and pressure cook for 2 whistles or until the wheat becomes soft.
- Remove from heat and let it sit until the pressure drops.
- Meantime, heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pan. Fry the nuts and raisins in the ghee. Keep aside.
- Now open the cooker and transfer the cooked wheat with jaggery syrup to a heavy bottom vessel.
- Add the remaining jaggery syrup into the cooked wheat. Cook for a few minutes over medium heat.
- Add coconut milk and stir well. Heat over low to medium heat until it just starts to boil.
- Remove from heat. Add the remaining ghee, ghee roasted nuts and raisin, dry ginger powder and cardamom powder into the pudding. Mix well.
- Let it cool. Serve or refrigerate.
Notes
1;Do not boil after adding coconut milk or it will look separated. The taste will be same but it won't look nice.