Preparation and nutritive values of Different types of Payasam Rice Paravannam:

Rice Payasam(rice kheer):

Ingredients :
Rice 150gms
Jaggery 100gms
Milk 250ml
Ghee 5gms
Cardamom traces


Preparation:

First take milk in to a vessel and heat it. Then after the milk gets heated add the rice to it. Cook for 15 to 30 mins . Check the rice whether its been cooked or not. If the rice is soft and cooked off the stove and immediately add the required amount of jaggery to it and mix well. Later add ghee on it.


Tips :
If required we can add sago in this preparation. It gives a different taste.



Sago Payasam:

Ingredients required for this preparation are ;

Sago 100gms
Milk 250ml
Sugar 150gms
Cardamom little
Cashewnuts 5gms
Ghee 5gms

Method of preparation:

First, take the milk into a vessel and keep heating it. After the milk gets hot add sago to it. After the sago gets cooked add the required amount of sugar to it. After adding sugar let the preparation get cooked well i.e, leave the preparation on the stove till the milk boils.Later off the stove and add cashews and cardamom powder to it.Meanwhile keep frying the cashews in ghee and later add them to the preparation. Also, grind the cardamom and add the powder to the preparation.Perform the complete preparation under a medium flame.
Finally add a little ghee over it.

The nutritive value of this preparation is

Energy 968.5kcals
Protein 9.26gms
Carbohydrates 248.30gms
Fat 17.7gms.


The above preparation , sago payasam provides a lot of calories and fat which are harmful to our body. These preparations should be prepared once in a month but not always. The most calories come from milk and sago.


100gms of sago provides 351kclas of energy. Most of the proteins are provided by milk and cashews.

Nutritional Foods

Nutrition is the branch of science that deals with the study of foods that supply all essential nutrients to the Human body to perform daily functions.

A balanced diet is a diet which provides all the essential nutrients like carbohydrates,fat,vitamins ,proteins and water to the body.Nowadays most people are suffering with diseases caused by an imbalanced diet.Many people in U.S.A and many other developed countries are suffering with diseases caused by fatty foods(eg: obesity).This obesity will lead to many other serious diseases which may cause death.