Ada pradhaman is a traditional Keralan dessert made by using the rice ada (rice pasta or flakes) with a sauce of cooked coconut milk and jaggery. Ada pradhaman is specially prepared in every home of kerala on the festival day of

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, it is served together with

Sadya Sadya ( ml, സദ്യ) is a meal of Kerala origin and of importance to all Malayalis, consisting of a variety of traditional vegetarian dishes usually served on a banana leaf in Kerala as lunch. Sadya means banquet in Malayalam. Sadya is ...

. A variety of

payasam Kheer, also known as payasam, is a sweet dish and a type of wet pudding popular in the Indian subcontinent, usually made by boiling milk, sugar or jaggery, and rice, although rice may be substituted with one of the following: daals, bulgur wh ...

, ada pradhaman is known as the King of Payasam.

Typical preparation

Cooked rice ada is added to milk or coconut milk, then topped with a jaggery syrup and other ingredients such as nuts, raisins, and cardamom. The dish is usually served hot. It is one of the most common desserts in

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Palada Pradhaman

Palada Pradhaman is a type of Payasam made with Pal(

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), rice ada, sugar, cardamom powder, nuts and raisins. Palada Pradhaman or palada payasam is offered specially to devotees as

Prasada 200px, Prasad thaal offered to Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad">Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad Prasada (, Sanskrit: प्रसाद, ), Prasadam or Prasad is a religious offering in Hinduism. Most often ''Prasada'' is vegetarian food ...

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Typical preparation

Palada Pradhaman

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