Sakkarai ( Sweet ) Pongal

Today is the final day of RM .We are ending up by

making a sweet dish . Sakkarai Pongal is a

traditional sweet dish . It is prepared mainly

during the first day of tamil

month Thai , Krishna Jeyanthi and for other poojas

and festivals.I made this a week back for Sathyanarayana

Pooja at my friends home.Here is the recipe

Ingredients

Raw rice - 1 cup

Moong dal - 1 tblsp

Water - 4 cups

Coconut grated - 1/2 cup

Jaggery - 2 1/2 cups ( can be reduced to 2 cups )

Cardamon powder - 1/4 tsp

Cashew - 10

Raisins - 10

Ghee - 4 tblsp

Method

• Wash rice and moong dal together.Pressure cook dal and rice with 4 cups of water for 15 min.
• Heat 1/4 water in a thick bottomed vessel and add jaggery.
• When the jaggery melts drain it to remove the impurities.
• Add this to the cooked rice .
• Stir together so that all comes together.
• Add grated coconut and cardamon powder.
• Heat ghee in a pan and fry the cashews and raisins.Add this to pongal.

I am sending this to Srivalli's Rice Mela.

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