This sweet is a balanced diet having all the nutrients required. It is quite simple to prepare even for beginners.
Cooking time 20 minutes.
serves 4
Ingredients
Rice 3/4 cup
Moongdal 1/4 cup.
Jaggery 1 and 1/2 cups.
Ghee 2 tablespoons.
Cardamom 2 nos (powdered).
Cashew nuts 6 pieces.
Dry grapes 10 nos.
Method
Wash and cook the rice and dal with enough water in a pressure cooker. Chop the jaggery, add 1/2 cup water and cook in a medium flame. When the jaggery melts you can strain to remove impurities. Place the syrup back to heating in medium flame. Keep stirring continously till the syrup forms a thread when dropped. Mash the cooked rice adding the ghee. Add the mashed rice to the syrup and mix well on a low flame. Cook on a low flame stirring well to blend the pongal for 3 minutes. Add cardamom and garnish with roasted cashew and dry grapes.
If you like to use milk in this recipe, add 1 cup milk while mashing the rice with ghee.
The amount of ghee mentioned here is minimum, For weight concious people. you add more ghee if you like.
More jaggery can be added to suit your taste.
[…] Sakkarai pongal […]
namaskarams
the divine verse in chapter 15 verse
14 of Bhagavad Gita is what comes to mind including Taittriya Upanishad which teaches the glory of ishwara and what it is all about
while vichara of annam.
srigurubhoh namaha
Thanks !thou i am a sindhi married to iyengar this is really a blessing thanks so much!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for making the recipe available. We are about to start preparing this dish.
-Satish/Swetha
Hi, I followed this recipe exactly and it turned out to be too good. I added a little grated coconut also towards the end. Thank you so much for this recipe.
Will make this tomorrow for Sankranti. Remember the yummy pongal I used to enjoy at my Iyengar friend’ home in Chikmagalur. Hope it turns out as good (fingers crossed). Will let you know.
You can fry little jathikai, japathri and cardamam in ghee, powder it and add to the pongal. also add kungumapoo and pachakalpuram.