My parents-in-law were very upset to know that Pras and I wont be visiting them for Onam. Hence, my mother-in-law quickly got down to making some dal payasam for us. I thought that it would be a very tedious task but she made it look very simple. Yet, I think I shall take the shortcut of using coconut milk from a tetra pak rather than extract it myself ;)Here goes the recipe[this will also help as a reminder for me]Ingredients1. Coconut milk extracted from one coconut - don't mix the first and second pressing2. yellow mung dal - 1 cup boiled3. Jaggery - 250gms4. ghee - 1 tbsp5. cashew nuts - a few for garnishing6. elaichi - a few for garnishingMethod:1. Boil the jaggery in a little water2. Pour the second pressing coconut milk and jaggery into the dal and allow it to boil for a while.3. Fry cashewnuts and elaichi in ghee.4. Add the first pressing coconut milk, ghee, elaichi and cashewnuts. Do not let it boil.For extracting coconut milk, boil a little water. Grate a coconut. Add a tiny bit of hot water to the coconut and squeeze the coconut bit by bit, extracting the coconut milk. This is the first pressing.Add a little more water to the squeezed, grated coconut and squeeze again to get the second pressing coconut mil...
