Sweet pongal

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By Shaalini Shaalu

Feb, 21st

548

Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
25 minutes
Ingredients
10 - 12

Ingredients

  • Rice
  • Moong dal
  • Jaggery
  • Water
  • Ghee
  • Salt
  • Cashew
  • Raisins
  • Cardamom
  • Cloves
  • Nutmeg
  • Camphor

Instructions

  • Take pressure cooker,add ¼ teaspoon ghee and roast the moong dal. Add water, washed rice and salt. Pressure cook for 4 whistles. Mash it once done. Powder jaggery and heat it with water just to immerse it and bring to boil. Let the jaggery completely dissolve and filter it and add to the mashed rice in the cooker. In a separate pan, heat a teaspoon of ghee and roast cashews to golden and add raisins to it. Once it fluffs up, transfer it and keep aside. In the same pan, add cloves, elachi and switch off the stove. Add nutmeg powder, give a quick stir. Take out elachi and powder it, add the powdered elachi, edible camphor, cloves along with nutmeg powder to the pongal. Mix well and cook in medium flame for 5 minutes. Add ¼ cup water. Add ghee little by little while cooking. Lastly add the fried cashews and raisins.