Paal Payasam / Rice Kheer - Maha Shivaratri Naivedyam Recipe

I prepared Paal Payasam this time for Shvaratri. Paal apayasam is made of raw rice, milk and sugar. This traditional dessert is made on auspicious and festival days. Payasams are always easy to prepare and they never fail you. Here goes the recipe for Paal Payasam,

Ingredients:

Milk - 8 cups (i used small coffee tumbler) 
Sugar - 1 cup 
Raw rice - 3 tbsp (i used basmathi rice)
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Cashews and raisins - each 1 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp

Method:

Add milk to a heavy bottom pan and bring to boil. 
Heat ghee in a pan. Add the cashews and raisins and fry till they turn light brown and keep aside.
In the same ghee add the rice and fry till it turn very light brown. 
Add the fried rice to the boiling milk.
Keep the flame in low and stir the milk in frequent intervals.
Keep watching the milk, to avoid burning at the bottom. Also place a ladle in the milk to avoid overflow. 
Once the milk reach half of its quantity, check if the rice get cooked well.
Keep the process till the rice got cooked.
Now add the cardamom powder, cashews and raisins.

Remove from the heat and serve hot or cold after refrigerating it. 

Last year I prepared Paasi Paruppu Payasam and here is the little intro for Shivaratri Festival