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Sweet Pongal

SHAKKARPONGAL / SWEET PONGAL




Good day friends,


I prepared Shakkarapongal / sweet pongal.A South Indian delicious sweet dish most importantly prepared during Pongal.Its also prepared as prasadam /prasad on special occasions at every South Indian homes and temples.It is one of my most favourite dish.I even don't mind standing in queue to get sweet pongal as prasadam in temples.

Ingredients-:
Raw Rice - 1/2 cup
Moong Dal dhuli / Pasiparappu - 4-5 tbsp
Jaggery / Gud / Vellam - 1/2 cup  ( depends on sweetness you want)
Cashews and raisins - around 10
Cardamon - 2
Ghee / Clarified butter - 1/4 cup  + 1 tbsp 


Recipe -
 Dry roast 4-5 tbsp moongDal  in a kadai / vessel.Wash and clean 1/2 cup rice.Mix Dal and rice ,add 2 cups water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles.In another vessel take  1/2 cup jaggery and add little water.When the jaggery get dissolved strain the mixture.Again heat the jaggery syrup and add boiled rice and Dal mixture well.Add ghee at regular intervals.This recipe requires lot of ghee for flavour and taste but you can add accordingly to taste. I added only 1/4 cup ghee. Soon the mixture would come together.Add crushed cardamon powder and switch off gas.In a tb spoon ghee roast 8-10 cashews and raisins and pour on the pongal.Mix well and serve.
In a tbsp ghee roast 8-10 cashews and raisins and pour on the pongal. 


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