Sweet Potato Kheer (Shakarkand Payasam)
Sweet Potato Kheer is a wholesome Indian dessert — boiled mashed sweet potato (shakarkand) simmered in milk with sugar, cashews, fresh coconut, sooji, cardamom, and saffron until creamy. A vrat-friendly fall-winter dessert popular during Navratri and Karthigai — naturally sweet, comforting, and iron-rich.
Ingredients
Garnish
- Cashew Nuts (optional) (garnish) — 10 piece (whole)
Main
- Saffron — 10 piece (ground)
- sooji — 2 tbsp (ground)
- Milk — 0.5 cup (whole)
- sugar — 2 tbsp (whole)
- Fresh Coconut — 1 cup (grated)
- Sweet Potato — 1 piece (grated)
- Cardamom — 2 piece (ground)
Method
- Grind the fresh coconut and cardamom in a mixer with a little water, and extract the coconut milk from the pulp using a strainer or muslin cloth.
- Peel and grate or finely chop the sweet potato.
- Heat the milk in a heavy-bottomed pan, add the grated sweet potato and cook on low to medium heat, stirring often, until the sweet potato turns soft.
- Add the extracted coconut milk and sugar, and mix well, letting the mixture simmer and thicken.
- Sprinkle in the sooji (semolina) gradually while stirring continuously to avoid lumps, and cook until the semolina is done and the kheer thickens.
- Switch off the heat, garnish with chopped cashew nuts and a few strands of saffron, and serve the Sweet Potato Kheer warm or chilled.
Common questions
- Sweet Potato Kheer (Shakarkand Payasam) ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- शकरकंद खीर (व्रत स्वीट) ko English mein Sweet Potato Kheer (Shakarkand Payasam) likhte hain.
- Ek plate Sweet Potato Kheer (Shakarkand Payasam) mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 146 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 45 min lagta hai — 15 min taiyari, 30 min pakana.