Thursday, October 28, 2010

Sakkarai pongal/ sweet pongal

Sweet Pongal

Ingredients (for two people) :-

Moong dhal - 1/2 cup.
Rice - 1/2 cup.
Milk-1cup
Coconut-small amount
cashew-20
jaggery-2cup
raisins (khish-mish - dry grapes)-some
cardamom-a pinch
ghee.-1cup

Preparation:
Fry the moong dhal (before washing) till it becomes little light brown (it
will start smelling). Then soak rice and dhal separately for 10 minutes.
Thoroghly wash and keep it in cooker with the right water (lesser is o.k)and
cook it seperately (in two different containers). Meanwhile cut coconut in
very small pieces and fry in ghee. Fry cashew and raisins also separately.
Break the jagerry and put in water (very little) and make a syrup. This is
done because sometimes jagerry has mud and stones. After we make the syrup
strain it through tea strainer. Put the rice and dhal in a big vessel and
add milk (may be one cup) and cook it till all the milk gets absorbed. Add
jaggery syrup and again cook till even it gets absorbed. Add three big table
spoons of ghee, powdered cardamon and cook again for a while. Add fried
coconut, cashews and raisins.
Serve hot in two cups with a spoon of ghee.

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