Recipe: Appetizing Sweet Pongal

Sweet Pongal.

You can cook Sweet Pongal using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet Pongal

1. It's 3/4 cup of rice.
2. It's 1/4 cup of split moong.
3. Prepare 1 cup of Palm sugar (Panang Kalkandu in Tamil) or brown sugar.
4. You need 1 cup of Milk.
5. You need 1 cup of Coconut milk (I use the caned coconut milk).
6. It's 1/2 cup of ghee.
7. It's Few of saffron threads.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of cardamom.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of Liquor root (Adhi mathuram in Tamil) freshly grated.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Nutmeg, freshly grated.
11. It's 1/4 cup of cashews.
12. It's 1/4 cup of pistachio (shelled).
13. It's 1/4 cup of golden raisins.
14. You need 1 tsp of rose water or vanilla extract.

Sweet Pongal instructions

1. 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”.
2. Garnish with roasted cashews, pistachio and raisin..