Pumpkin Kheer / Pumpkin Payasam.

Pumpkin kheer / Mathanga payasam is a sweet pumpkin payasam made with red pumpkin, sugar, milk, sabudana and ghee fried cashew nuts and raisins.Pumpkin kheer / Pumpkin payasam recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Pumpkin Kheer / Pumpkin Payasam / Mathanga Payasam.

Ingredients:-

Red pumpkin.         -300 gm
Sugar.                      -1/2 cup
Milk.                       -1&1/2 cup
Cardamom powder.-1tsp
Sabudana /Sago.     -3 tbsp
Water.                      -1 cup
Cashew nuts.           -1/4 cup
Raisins.                    -10 or 20
Ghee.                       - 4 tbsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash red pumpkin and cut it into halved pieces and remove the seeds.

2). Cook the required quantity of chopped red pumpkin halves with skin in a pressure cooker for 1 whistle on medium flame.Once pressure releases remove it from cooker and keep aside to cool. Once cooled scoop out the cooked pumpkin pulp.

3). Put the scooped out pumpkin pulp (about 2 cup) in a mixer jar. Add sugar, milk and cardamom powder into the mixer jar. Grind the pumpkin pulp along with sugar, milk and cardamom powder to a smooth puree.

Method:-

1). Wash sabudana /sago in water. In a pan add washed sabudana and 1 cup of water.Boil and cook sabudana until soft and translucent.

2). Add the ground pumpkin sugar milk mixture into the pan and mix it to the cooked sabudana.Bring it to boil on low flame for 3 minutes.

3). Heat ghee in a small pan and fry chopped cashew nuts and raisins in ghee till golden colour. Pour the ghee fried cashew nuts and raisins along with ghee into the pumpkin kheer.

4). Mix the pumpkin kheer and boil on medium low flame.

5). Once the boiling bubbles starts to appear, mix the pumpkin kheer and switch off the flame.

A healthy and sweet Pumpkin Kheer/ Pumpkin Payasam / Mathanga Payasam is ready to serve hot or cold.