Sakkarai Pongal / Sweet Pongal

Sakkarai Pongal is a traditional and delicious sweet recipe with sweetened rice dish made with the addition of jaggery and flavoured with cardomom. The sakkarai pongal is most often made with ven pongal for the pongal festival. It is a festival that is spread over four days... Pongal in tamil means something that is overflowing..

The act of boiling over of milk in the clay pot is considered to denote future prosperity for the family.. This pongal made with raw rice, nuts, ghee, and jaggery makes it a wholesome sweet to be served for god during the festival. It is a savour and as a sweet along with your afternoon meals..Soon i post this recipe...

This our pongal meals..

In a fresh banana leaf along with a piece of Sugarcane, Coconut, Banana, Panam kizhangu, serve it to the crow in the morning.... 

Sakkarai Pongal is made with jaggery and raw rice and mildly flavoured with cardomom powder.....Absolutely delicious...

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 30 mins

Serve - 4

Recipe cuisine : South indian

INGREDIENTS :

Raw rice - 1 cup

Water - 4 cup

Jaggery - 3 cup

Cardamom powder - 1 tspn

Ghee - 100 ml

FOR SEASONING :

Cashew - 7 to 10

Kishmish - 6 to 7

Ghee - 2 tbspn

METHOD :

• Take a cup of raw rice and wash well and cook in pressure cooker for 4 whistled..
• After 2 whistled simmer the flame for another 2 whistled...
• Allow the cooker pressure to release naturally. 
• When it subside, open the lid and add in jeggery and mix well...
• Now keep it in a medium flame, allow the mixture to boil.
• In another small kadai add in ghee and add in cashew and kishmish and fry it lightly..
• Add in roasted nuts and cardamom powder to the pongal,and mix well...
• First it is very liquid afterthat it became thick..
• Stir well on medium flame and add in little amount of ghee and mix well.
• Again stir it well and again add in ghee in the pongal and mix well.
• Now the pongal became thick and not to stick in the pan..
• The sakkarai pongal is ready... Turn off the heat and transfer the pongal to a serving bowl..
• It is traditionally offered on a fresh banana leaf....

PICTORIAL :

Take a cup of raw rice

Wash well and add it to the cooker

Whistled it for 4

Now its done

Take some jeggery in a bowl

Add to the rice

Mix well

Allow to boil

Allow it to melt the jeggery

In another pan add ghee

Take few nuts

Add to the pan

Roast well

Till it became brown

Add to the boiled pongal

Then take cardamom powder

Add cardamom powder

Mix well

Add in little ghee to the pongal

Mix well

Stir continuously

Again add in little amount of ghee

Now the liquid is watery

Keep mixing the pongal

Stir well

Then ad in little amount of ghee

Mix well

Again add in ghee

See the pongal mix came thick

The pongal not to stick in the side of the pan

Now the pongal is ready

Serve hot in banana leaf

Enjoy...

Mum mum mummm...