SAKKARAI PONGAL RECIPE| SWEET PONGAL RECIPE

Sakkarai Pongal | Sweet Pongal recipe i wanted to post when i made it during pongal(the harvest festival),but couldn't take pictures on that day. I made this on last friday ,and wanted to share the recipe with you all. Check out my temple style sakkarai pongal and akkaraivadisal.

Sakkarai pongal recipe

  Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 35 Mins |Serves: 3-4

     Raw rice   3/4 cup
     Moong dal  3 tblsp
     Jaggery  1 cup (reduce to 3/4 th cup acc to the sweetness of the jaggery)
     Cashew nuts  10
     Raisins  few
     Cardamom powder  a pinch
     Ghee  3-4 tblsp
     Milk   1/4 cup  
     

Method:

• Wash the rice and moongdal and pressure cook both of them together.
• In a kadai,add a tblsp of ghee and fry the cashewnuts and raisins seperately till golden brown.
• Keep aside.
• Add jaggery in the kadai and add afew tblsp of water to it.
• Stir in between till the jaggery melts.
• 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.
• Mix nicely to avoid forming lumps
• Keep the stove in low flame.
• Add ghee ,elachi powder to it.
• Garnish with cashew and raisins and transfer to a serving bowl.

• Enjoy it hot.