Banana Payasam

This is a very delicious dessert for festival days.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Vermicelli (Semiya)
• 3 ripe Bananas
• 6 cups Milk
• ½ cup Sugar
• 2 tsp Ghee
• Few drops of Orange Food Color (Optional)
• Few raisins
• Few cashews
• Few cardamom seeds

Preparation:

1. Mash bananas well with a fork or hand and keep aside.
2. Dry roast vermicelli until it turns golden brown in color. To this, add mashed bananas + sugar and mix well.
3. Pour milk and bring it to a boil. Keep the pan on med. low flame and allow vermicelli to become soft and cooked.
4. When the vermicelli appears cooked and the payasam becomes little thick, turn off the flame.
5. In a different pan heat ghee and add raisins + cashews + cardamom seeds. Stir well until the raisins bubble up and cashews turn golden brown in color. Add this to the prepared payasam and mix well.
6. Great tasting payasam is ready!! Yummy!!

Please Note: Dear Sra expressed, if milk would curdle when we cook banana and milk together. But I don't think so, as it didn't happen to me. But if you are still in doubt, you can add banana just before turning the flame off.