SWEET PONGAL / SAKKARAI PONGAL / PONGAL FESTIVAL RECIPE

Sweet pongal is made during PONGAL festival that is for SANKRANTHI , it is the first festival of the year that comes in January  . It is very famous dish / desert in Tamil Nadu . It is very easy to prepare sweet pongal and it is very delicious also . There are different ways of cooking pongal , few will add milk and few wont , but i add milk because it gives more  taste to pongal . So lets see the procedure to cook pongal.

  

Ingredients:-

1. Moong dal                         1 cup
2. Rice (normal)                    1 cup
3. Jaggery                              2 -  2&1/2 cup
4. Cardamom powder           2-3 pinch
5. Milk (warm/hot)               1&1/2 cup
6. Water                                5 cup 
7. Cashews                           10-12
8. Reisins                             10-12
9. Ghee    (thick)                 1 tsp                         

Method:-
 Dry roast the moong dal and rice till aromatic , it may take 3-4 min. Wash them in a cooker and add 5 cups of water and cook for 3 vishals.

In a vessel add 1/2 cup of water and add jaggery keep low medium flame stir in between, let the jaggery melt n starts bubbles ,turn off the stove . colour of the pongal depends on colour of jaggery.

Once the cooker cools , open the cooker cap mash the rice n dal mixture with a ladle and add the jaggery liquid by filtering it .

Add cardamom powder and milk mix well (some times adding normal  milk to hot mixture may get spoiled so add warm / hot milk), keep it on low flame and stir in between .

In a small pan add ghee and heat for 1 min , add broken cashews and fry till golden colour , turn off the stove and add raisins n fry for 1-2 min . Now add fried cashews n raisins and ghee to the mixture and mix well , after 3-4 min turn off the stove .

Sweet pongal is ready to serve. While serving u can drizzle little ghee and serve.

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PONGAL

Pongal is a Thamilnadu dish , a different rice dish with the taste of moongdal . This is very common dish in Thamilnadu . They do different verities of pongal . I know 2 types this one and other is sweet pongal. I will post sweet pongal later . Pongal is a easy dish and can be done in short time.

Ingredients:-

1. Normal rice                             1 cup
2. Moong dal                               1 cup
3. Dry coconut flakes                  1 bowl
4. Curry leaves                            8-10
5. Red chilly /green chilly           4- 6 (optional)
6. Jeera / cumin seeds                  1&1/2 tsp
7. Ginger paste / chopped finely 2 inch
8. black pepper                           15-20
9. Ghee                                       3 tsp
10. Salt  (according to ur taste)    1&1/2 tsp
11. Cashews                                 12 -15
12. water                                      5 cups
13. Turmeric powder                  2 pinch (optional)

Preparation time : 10 min

Cooking time    : 15 min

Serves              :  3 - 4

Method:-

Roast the moong dal and rice in a kadai / pan for 3-4 min in low medium flame , and keep it aside . After it cools wash with water and keep.

Keep a cooker on stove  add 2 tsp of ghee , keep medium flame after 1 min add cashews fry till u get light brown colour , remove the cashews to a plate . Now add  jeera , black pepper fry for a min , now add curry leaves and red chilly (break into half) & ginger paste or chopped ginger and saute them for 2 min.

Next add washed rice ,moong dal , water, salt , turmeric powder, coconut flakes and mix well , close the cooker , keep medium flame , turn off it after 2  vishals .

Let it cool for some time (10 min) , now open the cooker mix well again , while serving add 1 tsp of ghee on each plate and garnish with cashews , eat hot hot .
Pongal tastes good with coconut chutney / sambar .

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