AKARAVADISAL

Ingredients:
1 cup raw rice
½ a cup of moong dal
2 cups of milk
3 cups of vellam
100 grms ghee
25 grms cashew nuts
10 grms of raisins
1 tsp cardamom powder
A tiny pinch of pachai karpuram (optional)

Method:
Wash the rice and the moong dal.
Drain well, let it dry a bit.
Then dry roast in a wok till nice aroma comes.
Add 4 cups of water and cook in a pot over low fire
till the mixture is well cooked. Stir once in a way.

In the meantime boil the milk in a separate container.
Let it boil well, then add it to the rice dal mixture,
And let the mixture become soft (kulaiya)

Boil the sugar with little water till kambi patham.
Add this to the rice dal mixture, after this, you have
to keep on stirring or will get burnt at the bottom.

Heat a pan with the ghee and fry the nuts and the raisins.
Add it to the cooking rice dal mixture, add the cardamom powder.
Also add the patchai karpuram if using.
Mix every thing and remove from stove.
A truly delicious akaravadisal