Double Horse

Double Horse is a Kerala food brand known for rice products, spice powders and ready mixes for Malayali cooking. Its palada mix packs the rice ada for the classic Onam dessert, so the slow part of the recipe is all that is left to do.

We list Double Horse in our kheer and payasam mix collection, part of dessert mixes in baking, sugar and desserts. Palada is the milk based payasam of Kerala, made with ada, small flakes of steamed rice dough, which sets it apart from vermicelli semiya payasam and the jaggery based pradhaman.

Cook the ada first as the pack directs, then simmer it slowly in full fat milk with sugar, stirring often, until the milk reduces and takes on a pale pink colour and the pudding turns thick and creamy. Finish with cardamom and, if you like, cashews and raisins fried in ghee. Palada payasam is the sweet that closes an Onam or Vishu sadya, served warm on the banana leaf or in small bowls, and it is just as good chilled the next day. Patience is the main ingredient: the slower the simmer, the deeper the colour.

Keep the packet sealed and dry until use, and refrigerate any leftover payasam, loosening it with a splash of warm milk when reheating. To compare, see the payasam mixes from Alagappa's and our vermicelli semiya.