Photo: Jonas Ducker
Payasam recipe
11 ingredients
10 min + 40 min
8 people
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Payasam (sago) is an essential sweet dish at any Sri Lankan Tamil celebration or festival, including New Year and weddings.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
400
Calories
4g
Protein
27g
Fat
40g
Carbs
Counts 5 of 8 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut | 1/2 cup shredded (40g) | 283 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Cardamom | 1 tsp ground (2g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Mung Bean | not in our table | 0 |
| Ghee | not in our table | 0 |
| Cashew Nut | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 0.74 green gram (dried mung beans)
- tbsp tablespoon ghee, plus 1 tablespoon extra
- 1 (7 oz/1 cup) sago (payasam)
- 200 (1 oz) dried seviyan vermicelli noodles
- g tablespoons roughly chopped raw cashew nuts
- 30 tablespoon raisins
- g pinch of salt
- 2 (30 fl oz/3½ cups) coconut milk
- 1 caster sugar
- 1 ground cardamom
- 875 (4 fl oz/½ cup) coconut cream
Directions
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By lovefood ·
Recipe sourced from
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