Sakkare Pongal | Sweet Pongal | Sankranti Recipes
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Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3-4 people
 
Festive and loaded with nuts and raisins, creamy sakkare pongal
Ingredients
  • ½ Cup rice
  • 2 Tbsp mung dal
  • ½ cup jaggery
  • 2 Cups + ½ Cup water
  • ½ Cup milk
  • 2 laung/cloves
  • 4-5 powdered elaichi
  • A pinch of freshly grated nutmeg/jaakayi
  • ¼ Cup desi ghee
Method
  1. Take mung dal and rice in a bowl
  2. Wash them together in water twice
  3. Cook mung dal and rice with milk and 2 Cups water till soft
  4. In a small pan, saute cashews till golden
  5. Add in raisins and saute till they puff up
  6. Next throw in a couple of laung/cloves and fry for a few seconds, keep this aside
  7. In another pan, melt jaggery with ½ Cup water
  8. Strain this jaggery water to remove any impurities and keep aside
  9. Keep checking rice and dal while it is cooking, the grains should turn soft
  10. Pour melted jaggery and mix well with rice and dal mixture
  11. Keep adding little ghee at a time till pongal looks nice and shiny
  12. Add powdered elaichi and nutmeg, finish with remaining ghee
  13. Lastly add the fried laung, cashews and raisins in ghee
  14. Serve warm or at room temperature. Enjoy!
Notes
Add little more jaggery if prefer it sweeter, but this amount is about right

Do not add less ghee as the pongal gets the flavour and shine from the ghee

Add less nuts if you wish to, try not to skip them, they add texture and defines the pongal
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/sakkare-pongal/