Falooda seeds payasam or chia pudding is a delicious dessert you can make easily. This sweet dish, also known as sweet basil seeds kheer, sparkles on the health front too. Chia seeds are
rich in fiber, among others. One-ounce or 28 grams of this seeds contain 11 grams of dietary fiber. For nyvedhyam or prasadam too on a festival day, this payasam is a good fit.
Another feather in the cap of chia seeds, which are known as sabja in Hindi, is that they contain plenty of nutrients with only small amount of calories.
If you wish to consume healthy fat, one way to accomplish this would be to consume falooda seeds payasam or chia pudding. The reason is a large quantity of fat in chia seeds is omega-3 fatty acids, which belong to the healthy fat category.
You have good news on the chia pudding recipe front too. For, the recipe belongs to the super light category. After you soak the chia, falooda seeds, sabja seeds or sweet basil seeds in a mixture of jaggery and heated and cooled milk, for about four hours, it takes you less than five minutes to prepare the sabja pudding.
Garnish the chia pudding or falooda seeds payasam with plenty of cashew nuts, almonds and dry grapes or raisins by first frying them in ghee or clarified butter until the nuts are golden brown.
A concern with many of the sweet dishes is that they contain a lot of calories. However, this would not be an issue with chia pudding. So, let the chia pudding recipe cross your mind when you wish to prepare a dessert that glitters on both the taste and health benchmark