Rick Stein continues his cooking tour of India on Saturday Kitchen and today he makes an Indina dessert called payasam, a sweet milk pudding with vermicelli and cardamom.

Rick says about his dessert: “This is a very typical Tamil dessert; it will always be served at a Tamil wedding. A wedding that doesn’t serve payasam is not a real wedding, according to the locals. It’s slowly cooked milk reduced to the thickness of double cream and set with vermicelli and cardamom, decorated with pistachios, cashews and sultanas.”