Pongal Recipe // Sakkarai Pongal // Sweet Pongal //
How to make pongal
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| pongal recipe, sakkarai pongal |
Pongal
festival is the harvesting festival of tamilnadu. Here the people are
celebrating this pongal festival for
thank giving to god for their profits from their farms. People clean their
homes to welcome this pongal
festival and on the pongal day they make pongal recipe (sakkarai pongal) in new clay pots surrounded
by decorated fresh sugarcanes and turmeric. They dedicate this pongal recipe (sakkarai pongal) to sun and their all gods.
This pongal
recipe (sakkarai pongal) is
making by white rice, dal, jaggery, cardamom powder, ghee and cashew nuts.
Below are the ingredients details and procedure of making this sweet pongal recipe (sakkarai pongal).
Ingredients For Pongal recipe (sakkarai pongal) /
Sweet pongal recipe
3/4 cup white rice,
washed
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1/2 cup yellow split
Moong dal, washed
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1 cup jaggery (cane
sugar)
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1 teaspoon cardamom
powder
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1/4 cup ghee
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Ingredients for
Seasoning
2 tablespoons halved
cashew nuts
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2 tablespoons chopped
coconuts (small pieces)
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1 tablespoon ghee
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Procedure to make
Pongal recipe (sakkarai pongal) / Sweet Pongal
1) To begin making the Sakkarai Pongal Recipe, heat a pan on
medium heat and roast the yellow moong dal until a lightly roasted aroma is
released. Don’t allow the dal to turn brown.
2) Place the roasted dal
and the washed rice into the pressure cooker. Add 2-1/2 cups of water, cover
the pan, place the weight on and pressure cook until you heat one whistle.
After the first whistle, turn the heat to low and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes.
After 3 to 4 minutes, turn off the heat and allow the pressure to release
naturally. Keep this aside.
3) In a saucepan, add
1/4 cup of water and melt the jaggery (cane sugar) on medium heat. Allow the jaggery
to come to a boil. Stir in the cardamom powder to the jaggery mixture and turn
off the heat. Keep this aside.
4) Now heat a tablespoon
of ghee in a small pan and roast the cashew nuts until golden and crisp. Turn
off the heat and keep aside.
5) In the final steps to
make Sakkarai Pongal; add the melted
jaggery mixture and the roasted cashew nuts and chopped coconuts along with the
1/4 cup of ghee into the cooked rice and dal.
6) Stir well on medium
heat for about 5 minutes until the jaggery has got well blended with the rice
and dal mixture. The Pongal recipe (Sakkarai Pongal) is now ready. Turn off
the heat and transfer the sweet Pongal to a serving bowl.
The Sakkarai Pongal is traditionally
offered on a fresh banana leaf along with Ven
Pongal, Vada Sambar. You can make this recipe for the Pongal Festival or even for a delicious breakfast with family and
friends.
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I think you like this pongal recipe. Try these sweet pongal recipe on the pongal day and eat together with your
family. I wish you to get sweet life like sakkarai
pongal J
