Split Mung Bean Dessert (Parippu Payasam)

• Green gram(Moong dal without skin) - 1 cup
• Jaggery(molases) - 2 big balls
• Ghee - 3 tbsp
• Coconut milk - 1 cup
• Cardamom 2
• Cashew nuts - 5 nos
• fried coconut chips 1 tbsp

1. Fry dal in a heated pan on a low flame, till a nice aroma comes.
2. Do not make it brown and do not use oil or ghee
3. Make a jaggery syrup with little boiling water.
4. Make 3 1/2 cups of coconut milk
5. Cook the dal nicely in a pressure cooker.
6. Make sure its not at all dry after cooked
7. Add this cooked dal into the jaggery syrup and stir it for 5 mins
8. Add ghee to that and stir it for 5 mins
9. Add the coconut milk and stir it continuously.
10. :- Do not boil it.
11. Fry some cashew nuts and coconut chips in 1 tbsp of ghee.
12. Finally, add cardamom and fried coconut chips and fried cashew nuts into the payasam.

green grammoong, big, coconut milk, cardamom, nuts, coconut chips

Taken from food52.com/recipes/10673-split-mung-bean-dessert-parippu-payasam (may not work)