Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, sweet pongal. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, jaggery or sugar, cardamoms and nuts. Sweet pongal is known as chakkara pongali in telugu & sakkarai pongal in tamil. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai ponga L In Tamil language and is a sweet dish made during festive occasions in South India.
Sweet Pongal is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Sweet Pongal is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet pongal using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Pongal:
- Prepare 3/4 cup rice
- Prepare 1/4 cup split moong
- Make ready 1 cup Palm sugar (Panang Kalkandu in Tamil) or brown sugar
- Prepare 1 cup Milk
- Make ready 1 cup Coconut milk (I use the caned coconut milk)
- Take 1/2 cup ghee
- Prepare Few saffron threads
- Get 1/2 tsp cardamom
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Liquor root (Adhi mathuram in Tamil) freshly grated
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Nutmeg, freshly grated
- Make ready 1/4 cup cashews
- Make ready 1/4 cup pistachio (shelled)
- Make ready 1/4 cup golden raisins
- Take 1 tsp rose water or vanilla extract
Sweet Pongal is a traditional dish made for festivals like Sankranthi and Navratri and is also served as neivedhyam for many other festivals. As a variant of this Sweet Pongal, sometimes the rice and dal are cooked in a mixture of milk and water. This gives the sweet dish a milky taste and luscious mouth-feel. Sweet Pongal is compulsorily made for the Pongal festival.
Steps to make Sweet Pongal:
- Roast rice and moong in a tsp ghee. Cook rice, moong, 4c water, 1c milk together in a bowl placed in a pressure cooker. In a saucepan boil 1c milk over medium heat- about 4-5 minutes, add sugar. After sugar dissolves-about 2-3 minutes, add the cooked rice plus moong, mix well, add ghee and simmer heat, cook for a couple more minutes, add coconut milk, stir in saffron, cardamom, nutmeg and adhi mathuram. Remove from the stove. Garnish with roasted cashews, pistachio and raisin. “Pongalo Pongal”
- Garnish with roasted cashews, pistachio and raisin.
Freshly-harvested rice, if available, is used to make the Sweet Pongal, in new earthen pots! Sweet Pongal also known as Sakkarai Pongal or Chakkara pongal recipe is a delicious South Indian sweet dish made with rice, moong dal ,jaggery ,ghee ,dry fruits and flavored with cloves ,cardamom in an Instant Pot Pressure Cooker or Stove top. Sakkarai pongal recipe, a temple style flavourful sweet pongal with jaggery, edible camphor, cardamom, cloves and the essential ghee and cashew nuts. Rice and dal cooked with the ingredients like edible camphor, elachi, nutmeg and elachi make it smell and taste DIVINELY. This is my mom's staple recipe.
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