Pineapple Juice

INGREDIENTS:

• Pineapple pieces – 2 cups
• Sugar – 1 tbsp 
• Water – 1 cup

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Blend pineapple pieces and sugar smoothly.
• Add water and blend it together. 
• Filter it and serve.

Pineapple Payasam

A Sweet and tangy dessert. Its a variety payasam which has a distinct sweet and tangy taste.

INGREDIENTS:

• Finely chopped pineapple - 2cup
• Sugar- 1 cup
• Jaggery - 1 cup
• Thin coconut milk - 3 cup
• Thick Coconut Milk - 1 ½ cup
• Dried Ginger powder - ¼ tsp
• Cardamom powder - ¼ tsp
• Ghee  - 3 tbsp
• Cashew nuts- 10 nos
• Raisins - 1 tbsp
• Sesame - 1 tsp
• Cumin seed - 1 tsp

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Add little water in jaggery, let it dissolve and filter it.
• Heat a heavy bottomed pan, add ghee into it.
• Add chopped pineapple into it and saute well till it becomes soft. 
• Add sugar and  filtered jaggery into the cooked pineapple and mix well.
• Stir continuously and allow to cook.
• When the pineapple absorbs the jaggery, add thin coconut milk.
• Stir well and let it boil.
• When it begins to boil, add thick coconut milk, mix well and boil for a minute.
• Turn off  the stove and add cardamom powder and ginger powder.
• Heat 1 tsp of ghee in a pan.
• Fry cashew nut, raisin, cumin seed, sesame.
• Add this seasoning into the payasam and mix well.

Pineapple Pachadi

It is  a tasty sweet and tangy Pachadi.

INGREDIENTS:

• Pineapple (finely chopped) - 1 cup
• Grated coconut - ½ cup
• Green Chillies (roundly cut) - 4 nos
• Cumin seeds - ¼ tsp
• Curd - 2 cup
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
• Mustard seeds - 1 ½ tsp
• Red chilly - 2 nos
• Sliced Shallot - 1 tsp
• Fenugreek Powder- a pinch
• Curry leaves - 1 stem
• Salt to taste
• Coconut Oil -1 tsp 

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Grind the coconut and cumin seeds to a fine paste.
• Crush  ½ tsp mustard seed.
• Cook chopped pineapple and green chilly in water along with salt and turmeric powder.
• When the water almost dries up, add coconut paste and crushed mustard seed into it.
• When it starts boiling, turn off the stove and allow to cool.
• Add curd to it and stir well.
• Heat oil in a Pan.
• Add mustrard seeds and red chillies into it, allow to splutter.
• Add sliced shallot and fry it.
• Pour the seasoning over the pachadi and add curry leaves .
• Sprinkle fenugreek powder and mix well.

Recommended Combination: Serve with Rice.

Pineapple Pulissery

Pulissery is a simple yogurt based dish .Pulissery can be made using different vegetables and fruits(pineapple, mango, Cucumber).
Pineapple Pulissery which gives little sweet and sour taste.

INGREDIENTS:

• Pineapple(Cut into cubes) - ¼ cup.
• Green Chilly(Slit) - 3 nos
• Curd- 1 cup
• Grated Coconut -3 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp.
• Red chili powder - ¼ tsp.
• Cumin Seed- ¼ tsp
• Water - ½ cups
• Red chilly - 2 nos
• Mustard seed - 1 tsp.
• Fenugreek Powder
• Coconut Oil-1 tsp
• Curry leaves - few leaves

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Cook Pineapple and Green Chilly in water with Red Chilly powder, salt and turmeric powder .
• Mash the cooked Pineapple.
• Grind the coconut and cumin seeds to a fine paste.
• Add this paste to the cooked pineapple and allow to boil.
• When it starts boil,turn off the stove,
• Beat Curd with little water and add it to the mixture and stir well.
• Heat Oil in a Pan.
• Add Mustrard seeds and Red chillies and Curry leaves in to it, allow to Splutter.
• Add it to the curry and mix well.
• Sprinkle fenugreek powder and mix 

Recommended Combination: Serve with Rice.