Arisi (Rice) Payasam

Ingredients needed : 

• Raw rice - 1 /2  cup
• Grated coconut - 1 cup
• Cashews - 10
• Jaggery
• Milk - 1/2 cup
• Elachi powder
• Ghee

Method : 

Soak raw rice +cashews in water for 30mins. Grate coconut and set aside. Heat  a kadai and add jaggery and little water and allow it dissolve well meanwhile take a blender and add soaked rice + cashews + grated coconut and grind it to fine paste , if needed add little water. Strain the dissolved jaggery water to remove the impurities (wash the kadai also with water )Heat the kadai and add a tsp of ghee and add the jaggery water and allow it to boil well , briing the flame to medium and then add the grinded paste and allow it to cook well. Once done switch off the gas and add  elachi powder + boiled milk 1/2 cup ...and serve it