Chakkara pongal | Sweet pongal
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Ingredients (240 ml cup used)
for sweet pongal
- ½ cup rice
- ½ cup yellow moong dal / pesara pappu
- ¾ cup brown sugar or white sugar or jaggery or kalakandu (rock sugar)
- Small Pinch of edible camphor/ pacha karpuram (optional)
- ⅛ Tsp green cardamom powder
- 2 ½ cups water
- Few Cashews
- Few Raisins
- 2 tbsp. ghee
Optional
- ¼ cup full fat milk
How to make the recipe
Preparing
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Add dal and rice to a pressure cooker or pot. Wash them very well.
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If possible soak them for 15 mins before cooking.
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Add water and cook till the rice & dal is fully cooked. Allow the water to evaporate fully if more water is left. If cooking in a pressure cooker, allow to whistle once on a medium heat. If using milk, you can add it now and cook until the pongal absorbs all the moisture.
making sweet pongal
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Add sugar, cardamom powder and mix well. Cook till all the moisture from the sugar evaporates.
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Fry nuts and raisins in ghee, set the nuts aside. Off the stove, add camphor and pour the ghee to the rice.
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Cover the rice for at least 5 to 10 mins. Garnish chakkara pongal with nuts.
