Sweet Pongal/ Sakkarai Pongal. 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. Sakkarai pongal recipe, a temple style flavourful sweet pongal with jaggery, edible camphor, cardamom, cloves and the essential ghee and cashew nuts.
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Dry roast rice and dal separately until it is hot to touch.
Sakkarai Pongal has to be the king of desserts for Tamil people all around the world.
You can cook Sweet Pongal/ Sakkarai Pongal using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Sweet Pongal/ Sakkarai Pongal
- Prepare 1 cup of raw rice.
- It's 1 cup of jaggery.
- It's 1/2 cup of moong dhal.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of milk.
- It's 6 tbspn of Ghee.
- Prepare 2 tbspn of cashews (broken).
- Prepare 2 tbspn of raisins.
- It's 4 1/2 cups of water.
- You need 2 of tspn cardamom powder.
- It's 1 pinch of nutmeg powder.
- You need As per taste of Salt.
Lets make some awesome sweet pongal. We need some good quality raw rice and split moong dal. Sweet Rice Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal is an auspicious neivedhyam dish for many festivals. Sakkarai Pongal is one of the common and popular dish in Tamil Nadu and South India.
Sweet Pongal/ Sakkarai Pongal instructions
- Add 4 tbsp ghee in a pressure cooker and fry cashews. Remove and set aside. Now add raisins and remove them when it bulges. Set aside..
- Roast moong dhal till the raw smell disappears and add rice along with it. Pour 4 cups water, add a pinch of salt and cook for 4-5 whistles..
- Take jaggery in a separate vessel, add 1/2 cup water and boil till it has a syrup consistency. Strain the syrup to remove any impurities..
- Once pressure releases pour milk and jaggery syrup. Mix well..
- Add the fried cashews and rasins along with nutmeg powder. Mix everything and drizzle the remaining 2 tbspn ghee over it and mix..
Wishing Everyone a Very Happy Pongal. Pongal or Sankaranti is know as Harvest festival and is celebrated through out India. Since rice and dhal is consumed. Sakkarai pongal recipe - traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe. Traditionally sweet pongal is made with just jaggery rice and moong dal as main We use this vengala paanai(brass pot seen below) to make pongal on the festival day.