Hello there, hope you are doing good & staying warm this winter. Today, I am sharing a delicious dessert recipe for this winter with figs. It is anjeer/ anjoor payasa or figs kheer. If you like bananapayasa or dates kheer, then you will definitely love this.
The fig variety that I used is elephant ear fig
which we harvest in good numbers from my garden during the season! So far, I
made delicious fresh figs milkshake, banana & figs smoothie, anjeer banana buns, Fresh figs halwa and figs & banana bread. This time, I tried
preserving some of the figs harvested by following the same method we use to
preserve ripe banana. I stored this
sweetened & cooked fig in freezer and used in payasa after a month. It
turned out very tasty. Optionally you can add few dates while making this
sweet/ pudding. Here, I am writing the process of making payasa with fresh
figs, not with pre-processed figs. You can use pureed & processed figs or
dry figs too.
Cooking
time: 20-30 minutes
Serves:
4
Ingredients:
Well
ripe juicy figs – 6 nos
Jaggery
(powdered/ grated) – 1 cup, Adjust according to desired sweet taste
Sugar – 3-4 tbsp
Coconut
milk – 1 cup thick & 1 cup thin
Cardamom
powder – ¼ tsp
Dates
– 6-8 (optional)
Chopped
nuts of choice (cashews/ almonds) – 2tbsp
Ghee
– 3 tsp
Method:
- Wash and soak dates in water for half an hour. Remove seeds.
- Wash figs, peel the skin and chop the pulp roughly.
- Take chopped figs & soaked dates in mixer jar and make smooth paste without adding water if possible.
- Take a thick kadai/ pan, add 2 tsp ghee and ground paste of figs & dates.
- Add 3 tbsp sugar, mix well. Heat this on medium flame, stirring frequently.
- Take care not to burn this mixture. Switch off the stove when fig paste is cooked well and it forms a single mass leaving the sides. Process will take around 15 minutes. (If you are planning to store this for few days, then cook until it turns to halwa consistency).
- Now, add this cooked figs mix & thin coconut milk in a thick vessel or in the same pan in which figs are cooked. Mix well and bring this to a boil.
- Meanwhile, prepare jaggery syrup with little water, strain to remove any impurity.
- Add this syrup to the boiling kheer, further boil for a while.
- At the end add thick coconut milk and switch off when it just starts bubbling. Do not boil it after adding thick coconut milk as it will result in curdling.
- Top with roasted/ fried nuts in little ghee. Serve this kheer/ payasa hot or chilled.
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