Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet ghee pongal (chakkarai pongal). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sweet pongal made in temples has lot of ghee. A generous amount of ghee helps to maintain the slightly gooey consistency for longer. So if you are making ahead for some occasion consider adding more ghee.
Sweet ghee Pongal (chakkarai Pongal) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Sweet ghee Pongal (chakkarai Pongal) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have sweet ghee pongal (chakkarai pongal) using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet ghee Pongal (chakkarai Pongal):
- Make ready 1/2 cup raw white rice
- Make ready 1/4 tbsp moongal (split)
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Make ready 4.5 cups water
- Take 3 tbsp chopped cashews
- Take 3 tbsp ghee
- Prepare 2 tbsp kishmish
- Take 2 tsp cardamom powder
- Prepare 2 tbsp grated coconut (optional)
Mash the rice well without lumps. Chakkara Pongal is a delicacy made from newly harvested rice. Today let us learn how to make sakkarai pongal or sweet pongal following our easy and fool proof recipe with step wise pictures. Pongal is a popular rice porridge dish based in South India.
Instructions to make Sweet ghee Pongal (chakkarai Pongal):
- Rinse moong dal with water, transfer to a pressure cooker and add water. Let it boil of medium for few mins.
- Wash and soak the rice with water.
- Once you see the moong dal froth up like this add the rice to this gradually and reduce flame to low.
- To the cooker add water and pinch salt.
- Cover and let it cook for 4-5 whistles.
- Roast cashews with ghee until lightly brown then add the kishmish and fry till it swells up. Don’t burn.
- Mash the rice well without lumps
- Chop the jaggery coarsely like this and mix well with rice dal mixture till it dissolves completely. Add cardamom powder or crushed cardamoms. Here you can add grated coconut is desired.
- Add rest if ghee and roast dry fruits now
- Mix thoroughly. Serve hot.
Pongal is unique to South Indian cuisine. Yes, the Sweet Pongal has won this contest hands-down. Sakkarai pongal recipe, a temple style flavourful sweet pongal with jaggery, edible camphor, cardamom, cloves and the essential ghee and cashew nuts. Rice and dal cooked with the ingredients like edible camphor, elachi, nutmeg and elachi make it smell and taste DIVINELY. Sweet Rice Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal is an auspicious neivedhyam dish for many festivals.
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