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sakkarai pongal | chakkara pongali | sweet pongal

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 5
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: South Indian
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

For pressuer-cooking rice and dal
  • 1 cup raw rice
  • 2 tbsp moong dal
  • 4 cup water
  • ¼ tsp salt
For jaggery syrup:
  • 2 cup jaggery (grated/ powdered)
  • ½ cup water
For pongal:
  • ½ cup ghee
  • 2 tbsp ghee
  • 1 tbsp cashews
  • 1 tbsp raisins
  • ½ tsp cardamom powder

Method
 

For pressure-cooking rice and dal:
  1. Firstly, take 1 cup of raw rice, and 2 tbsp of moong dal. wash it thoroughly
  2. Secondly, Put washed rice and moong dal in a pressure cooker
  3. Thirdly, add ¼ tsp salt and 4 cups of water
  4. Next, pressure cook it for 5 whistles
For jaggery syrup:
  1. Take 2 cups of jaggery in a pan, add ½ cup of water
  2. Mix well
For frying cashews and raisins
  1. In another pan, heat 2 tbsp of ghee, first, add cashews and then raisins, and fry it, keep aside
For making pongal:
  1. After pressure is released, open the lid, mash it masher or with ladle
  2. Add jaggery syrup by straining the jaggery syrup over the Pongal, mix well
  3. Add ½ cup of ghee over the Pongal,
  4. Now, add ½ tsp cardamom powder
  5. Finally, Add fried cashews and raisins, and mix well