Sakkarai pongal
Sakkarai pongal

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Chakkara pongal or sakkarai pongal are the other names. Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, jaggery or sugar, cardamoms and nuts. Sweet Rice Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal is an auspicious neivedhyam dish for many festivals.

Sakkarai pongal is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Sakkarai pongal is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sakkarai pongal using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sakkarai pongal:
  1. Get 1 cup long grain rice,soaked and grind
  2. Get 1/4 cup moong dal(dried moong beans) rinsed,soaked 30 minutes
  3. Prepare 3 cup whole milk
  4. Make ready 1/4 cup ghee
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup cashew halves
  6. Get 3 tsp golden rasins
  7. Take 1 1/4 cup grated jagrgey or brown sugar
  8. Make ready 2 tsp cardamom powder
  9. Prepare 1/2 cups almonds

Sakkarai pongal recipe - traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe. Traditionally sweet pongal is made with just jaggery rice and moong dal as main ingredients. Sakkarai Pongal has to be the king of desserts for Tamil people all around the world. Pongal is a major festival in Taminadu.

Steps to make Sakkarai pongal:
  1. Bring dal and 4 1/2 cup water to boil in a sauce pan.
  2. Reduce heat to medium,cook until dal is tender,after than add grind rice and cook for 12-14 minutes.
  3. Add milk and cook strring occasionally to prevent scorching until dal is mushy,20-22 minutes.
  4. Take another pan heat add ghee then add cashews and rasins until rasins are plump for 2-3 minutes.
  5. Add into rice with jaggery and cook until jaggery is melted or pudding is thickened.
  6. Garnish with some dry fruits and pista.
  7. Serve warm or at room temperature

The word "pon" in Tamil means Gold. The color of yellow, the color of sun. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai pongaL In Tamil language and is a sweet dish made during festive occasions in South India. Another similar variation is this Chakkara Pongal made with sugar. Amma make sweet pongal, ven pongal, medu vada, and raw banana chips.

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