Ada pradhaman, a rice-based dessert made with jaggery and coconut milk.

Ada pradhaman, rice dessert with jaggery and coconut milk

Desserts

Kerala’s Ada Pradhaman: Rice flakes (ada) cooked in a jaggery syrup, simmered in three portions of coconut milk, flavored with cardamom, and garnished wit…

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A popular dessert served during the sadhya feasts, which are traditional meals in Kerala, ada pradhaman is made with small rice flakes, jaggery, and coconut milk, extracted in three steps.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time45 min
  • Total1 hr 15 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodsaucepan
  • Vegetarian

Ingredients

8 people
  • $1.06
  • $1.87

Directions

  1. Melt the jaggery in a small amount of hot water to create a syrup, then strain it.
  2. Squeeze the shredded coconut three times with warm water: set aside the first, thick milk, and mix the second and third, which will be lighter in color. ≈ 4 min
  3. Boil the adas in boiling water, drain them, and rinse them in cold water.
  4. Dissolve the brown sugar in the jaggery syrup.
  5. Add the second and third milk, and let it simmer over low heat until the mixture thickens.
  6. Add the cardamom, then the first milk, and mix gently without boiling.
  7. Heat the grapes, cashew nuts, and coconut flakes in ghee, pour them into the pradhaman, mix well, and remove from the heat.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 250 g of ada (rice flakes)
  • 600 g of jaggery
  • 2 cups of shredded coconut
  • water
  • 15 grapes
  • 15 cashew nuts
  • 5 cardamom pods, ground
  • 2 tablespoons of ghee
  • a few coconut slices

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