Biyyam Payasam (Rice Kheer)

Ingredients:
Rice - 3/4 cup
Fresh Coconut - 1 cup (grated)
Sugar - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Cardamom -5
Ghee - 2 tsp
Cashew nuts - 1 tbsp
Pachcha Karpuram (edible camphor) - a pinch


Method:

• Soak rice for 30 minutes. then drain the water and grind along with grated coconut to make paste.
• Fry cashew in ghee and keep aside.
• Make cardamom powder by adding little sugar. If you add sugar to cardamoms, you will get fine powder.
• Take two cups of water in thick bottomed vessel, add ground paste and cook in low flame by stirring continuously .
• When it is cooked, add sugar and cook till it melts.
• Add milk and mix well. 
• Lastly add cardamom powder, cashew nuts, pachcha karpuram. Remove from fire.
• Serve hot.