Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 medium sized pineapple / 1 cup finely chopped pineapple
2. 1 cup jaggery (as per your taste)
3. 2 cups coconut milk.
4. 3 tsp rice flour
5. 2 tsp ghee
6. 8-10 cashews
7. 8-10 raisins
8. 1 cup water
9. A pinch of cardamom powder
10. A pinch of salt

Instructions for making ananas pineapple payasa:

1. Take a medium sized well ripened Pineapple (ananas) and wash it thoroughly.
2. Peel the Pineapple (ananas) and remove the eyes.
3. Now cut Pineapple (ananas) into vertical pieces and remove the middle hard part. Refer the picture below.
4. Chop the vertical pieces of Pineapple (ananas) into small tiny pieces.
5. Take 1 cup of coarsely powdered jaggery and 1 cup of water in a vessel and keep it for boiling.
6. When it starts boiling switch off the stove and keep it aside. We will be using this jaggery syrup later.
7. Take 2 tsp of ghee is a thick bottomed pan, fry the cashews and set it aside.
8. Now in the same pan fry the raisins and keep it aside.
9. Now add in finely chopped pineapple to the same pan and start frying.
10. Fry the pineapple pieces for 5 minutes under medium flame. The pineapple pieces will turn soft and you can observe a slight colour change.
11. Now its time to add jaggery syrup to the fried pineapple. Add in jaggery syrup using a strainer. This helps in removing the impurities of jaggery.
12. Bring the pineapple and jaggery syrup to boil and reduce the flame. Continue boiling till the pineapple is cooked.
13. Allow it to boil for 10 to 15 minutes in the jaggery syrup. You can observe the pineapple pieces will turn more soft.
14. Now its time to add coconut milk (unsweetened). You can use either store bought coconut milk or home made coconut milk. Add 2 cups of coconut milk (Prepared using 2 cups grated coconut and 2 cups water).
15. Take 3 tsp of rice flour in a bowl, add in little water and make a thin paste out of it.
16. Add in this rice flour paste to the payasa. Adding rice flour paste gives good texture and taste. Remember after this stage you have to start stirring the payasa more frequently.
17. Add in a big pinch of salt. Adding salt removes the bland taste of the payasa.
18. Add in fried cashews, raisins and a big pinch of cardamom powder. I missed the picture of adding cashews and raisins. By now payasa will be boiling well and switch off the stove. Remember don't boil the payasa for long time after adding coconut milk. Serve tasty pineapple payasa either hot or cold.

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