Paradi Payasa Jaradi Payasa | Karnataka Kannada Recipe

Traditional festival Payasa.
Pardi Payasa is very familiar to the Udupi Mangalore region as Pardi Payasa and to the sirsi SIddapura region it is called Jaradi Payasa. The name paradi or Jaradi is because we use the colander or jaradi to make the tiny rice balls.
Ingredients:
¼ cup rice flour
¾ cup fresh grated coconut
1/3 cup jaggery or little more than 1/4 cup jaggery
2 cardamom
pinch of salt
1 tbsp ghee
around 8 to 10 almonds(optional)
5 cashews
around 15 raisins
around 2 cups water