Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sweet pongal. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet Pongal is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sweet Pongal is something which I have loved my entire life.
Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, jaggery or sugar, cardamoms and Sweet pongal is known as chakkara pongali in telugu & sakkarai pongal in tamil. In the rural villages people gather in. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai pongaL In Tamil language and is a sweet dish made during festive occasions in South India.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet pongal using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Pongal:
- Take 3/4 cups Raw rice -
- Get 3 tbsp Moong dal -
- Prepare 1 cups Jaggery
- Take Cashew nuts 10 nos
- Make ready 1 tbsp Raisins
- Prepare 1 pinch Cardamom powder
- Prepare 4 tbsp Ghee
- Take 1/4 cups Milk
Sakarai Pongal is a sweet and buttery porridge-like dish that is traditionally prepared in South India for the Makar Sankranti. Sweet Pongal is a Rice, Moong Dal and Jaggery based dessert which is popular in South India. During the period of Sankranthi and Pongal festival, the making of Pongal Recipe has become famous. Sweet Pongal (Sarkkarai Pongal) - This simple dessert is usually made during the harvest festival 'Pongal'.
Steps to make Sweet Pongal:
- Wash the rice and moongdal and pressure cook both of them together.In a pan,add a tblsp of ghee and fry the cashewnuts and raisins seperately till golden brown.
- Add jaggery in the kadai and add few tblsp of water to it. Stir in between till the jaggery melts and filter the impurities.
- Again heat the jaggery syrup in the kadai for 5 mins. Mash the cooked rice nicely by adding milk to it.
- Add the rice mixture to the jaggery syrup and mix nicely to avoid forming lumps. Keep the stove in low and add ghee, cardamom powder to it.
- Garnish with cashew and raisins and transfer to a serving bowl.
It is also prepared very often as a quick snack, dessert or a meal. Pongal is the simplest of desserts. Lets make some awesome sweet pongal. We need some good quality raw rice and split moong dal. Sweet Pongal is a Rice, Moong Dal and Jaggery based dish/dessert popular all across South India, specially in Tamil Nadu (known as Sarkkarai Pongal) and Karnataka (known as Sihi Huggi).
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