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The Moncompu Bhagavathy Temple is famous for a special pudding known as ‘Saisyam’. It is a liquid sweet made mainly of hand-pound punja rice mixed with equal quantity of fried green gram dhal.
The Moncompu Bhagavathy Temple is famous for a special pudding known as ‘Saisyam’.
It is a liquid sweet made mainly of hand-pound punja rice mixed with equal quantity of fried green gram dhal. The mix is cooked in water along with unbleached molasses or gur extracted from sugar canes. Milk squeezed from coconut in three stages of thickness are kept ready in advance and then added to the cooked rice-and-dhal mix, starting with the least dilute portion.
Only after full cooking, the most concentrated coconut milk is mixed. A very sweet variety of small bananas known as ‘Kadali’ is also added at the end before spicing the pudding with dried ginger powder and pellets of coconut kernel fried in ghee.
Even though this is a prayerful offering for the Goddess at the temple, this pudding can be made at home too as a good dessert. |
