Sarkarai Pongal
Sarkarai Pongal

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sarkarai pongal. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chakkara pongal or sakkarai pongal are the other names. Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, jaggery or sugar, cardamoms and nuts. Sweet Rice Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal is an auspicious neivedhyam dish for many festivals.

Sarkarai Pongal is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Sarkarai Pongal is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sarkarai pongal using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sarkarai Pongal:
  1. Make ready 100 gm Raw rice
  2. Take 50 gm Yellow moong dal
  3. Get 100 gm Jaggery
  4. Make ready 150 gm Ghee
  5. Make ready as needed Cashew and raisins
  6. Get 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder

Sakkarai pongal recipe - traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe. Traditionally sweet pongal is made with just jaggery rice and moong dal as main ingredients. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai pongaL In Tamil language and is a sweet dish made during festive occasions in South India. Another similar variation is this Chakkara Pongal made with sugar.

Instructions to make Sarkarai Pongal:
  1. Wash rice and dal cook it in a pressure cooker.Add 600 gm water. Cook upto 5 whistle.
  2. Break jaggery and add little water until it immerse.cook it till no lumps filter and cool it.
  3. When rice is ready add jaggery water to it. Wait till it tightens add cardamom powder and cashew and raisins

Amma make sweet pongal, ven pongal, medu vada, and raw banana chips. She also make sambar, and some kind of pongal kulambu to go with it. I will post pictures of our celebration in my other blog. Sakkarai Pongal has to be the king of desserts for Tamil people all around the world. Pongal is a major festival in Taminadu.

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