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Sweet pongal is a traditional sweet treat served during the big festival Pongal/Sankranthi. It's a very simple dish made with rice, daal and jaggery. A treat for your senses.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 1 cup raw rice, I use sona masoori
  • ½ cup yellow moong dal
  • 1 cup crushed/sliced or grated jaggery( I use a mix of light and dark jaggery) use another ¼ cup if you like more sweet
  • 5 + 1 +1 cups water
  • Pinch of salt
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder(fresh) use about 6 green small cardamom
  • 5 tbsp fresh ghee
  • 12-15 cashewnuts
Instructions
  1. Use a pressure cooker or a pan. Toast the yellow split moong daal on low heat until it lightly turns color and gets light brown. Add the rice in it and wash it together very well and add 5 cups of water and pressure cook it for 3 whistles or cook in on medium heat in a pan for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and let it sit.
  2. In another sauce pan, add jaggery and 1 cup of water and slow melt it on medium to slow heat. Make sure not to boil it. Let all the jaggery melt and simmer for 5 minutes. DO NOT over cook this. Strain the jaggery and set aside.
  3. Open the lid of the rice and pour the jaggery in it, add a pinch of salt. Add 1 cup of water and let the rice and jaggery simmer S for another 10 minutes.
  4. While that is simmering, in a pan add the ghee. Add the cashews and toast it. Turn off and set aside.
  5. Once the pongal has simmered for 15 minutes, add the ghee with cashews, powdered cardamom and turn off the heat. Cover for 10 minutes before serving.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2019/01/14/best-sweet-pongal/