Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Millet sweet pongal

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Millet sweet pongal. Millet sweet pongal recipe, Sharing a tasty foxtail millet recipe for pongal festival. How to prepare Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal- Tinai Chakkarai Pongal. Wash the samai, drain n set aside.

Millet sweet pongal Delicious foxtail millet sweet pongal is ready to serve as dessert. Generous ghee makes the sweet pongal a delectable dessert. Pongal thickens with time, so adjust consistency adding water initially. You can cook Millet sweet pongal using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Millet sweet pongal

  1. It's 2 cup of Millet(thinai).
  2. It's 1 cup of Moong Dal.
  3. It's 1 cup of Milk.
  4. Prepare 2cup of Jaggery or Jaggery Syrup.
  5. Prepare 3 tbsp + 1 tsp of Ghee (for roasting cashews,raisins).
  6. It's 1 tsp of Cardamom powder.
  7. You need 10 of Cashews broken.
  8. It's 15 of Raisins.

Proso millet is packed with high amounts of calcium. It is learnt that it reduces cholesterol and so the risk of heart diseases. I wanted to try millet sakkarai pongal after trying the savory version. Last month end I had few leftovers of Varagu(Kodo millet) so decided to make sakkarai pongal.

Millet sweet pongal instructions

  1. Soak jaggery in warm water, crush it well. Then heat it up until it is slightly thick (no string consistency needs to be checked).Strain and keep aside..
  2. Dry roast the millets along with moong dal till slightly golden.Then rinse it well and cook it with enough water till it's soft..
  3. It should be mashable,Set aside fry ghee cashews and raisins till golden..
  4. Now add the jaggery syrup or Jaggery and mix well.Let it boil for 2 mins so that jaggery gets nicely blended with the it..
  5. Now add milk and cook for 3mins.Finally add ghee,give a quick mix and garnish with ghee fried cashews and raisins and apple slices also...
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I love all varieties of sweet pongal so I. South Indian sweet prepared with kodo millet and mung dal. Thinai pongal is a pongal made using Thinai (Foxtail Millet) instead of conventional rice. Millets comes with its own health benefits and hence its recommended to add millet as part of our regular diet. Super delicious and healthy millets pongal which taste really yummy.