Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet pongal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really 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. It is made in many traditional South Indian homes on the day of Makara sankranthi or pongal festival. sweet pongal recipe chakkara pongal with step by step photo and video recipe. there are several varieties of pongal dish and the most common one is the savory ven pongal which is mainly prepared for breakfast. but the sweet pongal or chakkara pongal is especially prepared during the celebration of sankranti festival and served as prasadam in many south indian temples.
Sweet pongal is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Sweet pongal is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet pongal using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet pongal:
- Get 1.5 cup rice
- Make ready 0.75 cup moong dal
- Take 1-1.5 cups jaggery
- Get 4 cups milk
- Prepare 4 cups water
- Make ready Cardamom powder
- Get 4 tbsp ghee
- Get Cashews & raisins
- Prepare 4 tsp shredded coconut
- Make ready Saffron threads soaked in milk
I am pleased to share our family recipe made for "Thai Pongal", a harvest festival celebrated in mid-January in South India. 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.
Instructions to make Sweet pongal:
- In a cooker take 2 tsp of ghee, add soaked moong dal(for 15 to 20 mins). Sauté for awhile until it turns aromatic. Now add rice and sauté again.
- Add 3 cups of milk and 4 cups of water and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
- In another pan take 1.5 cups jaggery and add water. Let it boil to get a jaggery syrup
- Once the cooked rice and dal is cooled down, add jaggery syrup. Also add additional cup of milk and boil in simmer. Also add saffron threads soaked in milk.
- Add roasted cashews and raisins to it along with cardamom powder. Add additional ghee (2 to 3tbsp). Also add roasted coconut and mix well.
- Serve it hot with ghee.
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. If you like South Indian desserts then you'll fall in love with sweet Pongal - a beautiful brown colored porridge made from rice and moong dal. Cooked in ghee, sweetened with jaggery, and garnished with cashews and raisins, this dessert recipe is absolutely divine. Chakkara Pongal is a delicacy made from newly harvested rice.
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