Pidi Payasam / Rice Dumplings and Banana Kheer is a delicious Malabar payasam preparation. Try this healthy kheer at home and i'm sure you will love it. If you are more health conscious; You can add jaggery instead of sugar used here.
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Ingredients:

1. Roasted rice flour- 1/4 cup
2. Water-1/4 cup
3. Salt-to taste
4. Kerala large ripe banana-2
5. Thin coconut milk-2 1/2 cups
6. Thick coconut milk-1 cup
7. Sugar-as per taste
8. Cardamom powder-1/2 tsp
9. Ghee-1 tsp

Preparation:

• Heat a pan with 1/4 cup of water and by adding salt.
• When it boils; make the flame to low and add roasted rice flour.
• Combine it well for two minutes and turn off heat.
• Transfer the mixture in to a plate and allow to cool little.
• Knead it in to a smooth dough while still hot.
• Now take tiny portions from the dough and make small oval shaped pearls out of it.
• Peel and chop the banana in to small pieces.
• In to a wide pan add the prepared rice pearls along with 2 1/2 cups of thin coconut milk.
• Cook for about 6 minutes until the rice pearls get cooked without mashing.
• Then add sugar and chopped banana pieces.
• Mix gently and cook for another 6 minutes or until banana pieces get cooked without mashing them.
• Then add the remaining 1 cup of thick coconut milk and cardamom powder.
• Add a teaspoon of ghee and turn off heat when it starts further boiling.
• Serve the payasam as warm or after cools down.