How to Make Yummy Akkara-Adisil / Iyengar style Sweet Pongal

Akkara-Adisil / Iyengar style Sweet Pongal.

You can have Akkara-Adisil / Iyengar style Sweet Pongal using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Akkara-Adisil / Iyengar style Sweet Pongal

1. It's 1 cup of Raw Rice.
2. It's 1/2 cup of Moong dal.
3. You need 3 tbsps of Ghee.
4. It's 500 ml of Milk.
5. You need 200 grams of Jaggery.
6. It's 1/4 tsp of Cardamom.
7. It's pinch of Saffron.
8. You need of water.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of Ghee.
10. Prepare of cashews.

Akkara-Adisil / Iyengar style Sweet Pongal instructions

1. Wash and soak the rice and moong dal in a vessel for about 15 minutes..
2. Take a kadaai, keep it on medium heat. Add 2 tbsps of ghee, and add only the soaked rice and moong dal, discard the water..
3. Fry and sauté them until aromatic. Do not brown them..
4. Transfer this to a container and add 3 cups of water. Pressure cook this for 6 whistles..
5. Allow the pressure to release on its own..
6. Take a heavy bottomed pot, keep it on medium heat..
7. Pour in the milk and bring it to a boil..
8. Take the cooked rice-dal mixture, mash it lightly with the help of a ladle and add it to the boiling milk..
9. Allow this to boil and combine. Now add the jaggery. No need to make the jaggery into a syrup. Jaggery will cook in the milk..
10. Add a pinch of saffron and a pinch of cardamom powder..
11. Take the kadaai used to fry the rice and moong dal, keep it on medium heat, add in a tablespoon of ghee, add the broken cashews and fry them until golden brown..
12. Pour this tempering to the milk mixture..
13. Take this off the heat and serve it piping hot..