Sweet Pongal, Temple style sweet pongal, Chakkara Pongal, Sakkarai Pongal

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  Happy Bhogi, hope you are all enjoying festival with your family😍❤️. Today's recipe is sweet pongal which is very divine in taste and very aromatic. We can also call this sweet apongal as Chakkara Pongal, Sakkarai pongal. Today I prepared sweet pongal using jaggery, we can also prepare it using sugar. We can also offer this sweet pongal on Durga pooja's,vara Lakshmi pooja's. I used edible camphor to get temple prasadam taste. We can also use clove and grated nutmeg too, to get perfect temple flavour. Very small amount of edible camphor(pachha karpuram) is used. Edible camphor(pachaa karpuram) is differ from normal camphor, so take care while adding. 

  I use milk for preparing this sweet pongal which gives very good taste to pongal. Feel free to add ghee, as taste of pongal depends on the amount of ghee we add.

 Also check Ven pongal/ katee pongal/ hot pongal recipe too. 

 

Ven Pongal / Katee Pongal  

  

               Sweet Pongal

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Desserts/Sweets
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Rice, 
Moong dal/pesarapappu, Jaggery
Author : Arunasaraschandra       

Ingredients

Rice - 1 glass

Moongdal/Pesara pappu - 1/2 glass

Jaggery - 1 cup

Water - 3 glasses

Milk - 2 glasses

Ghee - 1/4 cup

Camphor - 1/2 pinch

Elachi Powder - 1 tsp

Cashew nuts - 12

Raisins - 12 

Instructions

1) Take a pan add 1/2  glass of Moong dal and fry it on low flames. 

2) Now add 1 glass of rice and dry fry both. 

3) Fry the above till you get nice aroma. Do not burn it. 

4) Now wash the above fried in water well. 

5) Take the above washed into pressure cooker and add 3 glasses of water. 

6) And 2 glasses of milk  mix everything well. 

7) Let the above boil for 2 minutes in high low. 

8) And then close the pressure cooker and cook it for 4 whistles. And rest it till the pressure goes. 

9) Mash the above rice and Moong dal with ladle to get smooth texture. 

10) Now cut the jaggery and add 1/2 glass of water. 

9) Heat the jaggery just to dissolve it in water and strain it using strainer, in order to remove the impurities from jaggery. Add elachi powder,        jaggery syrup to the above mashed rice and lentils mixture. 

10) Also add 1/2 pinch edible camphor to above and mix everything well. The mixture will thickens quickly. Then add hot water or milk and mix it well. 

11) Take a pan add 2 tsp of ghee add cashew nuts fry till it changes color. 

12) Now add raisins fry it become fluffy.

13) Add the above fried nuts, raisins and ghee to the sweet pongal and mix everything well. 

Tasty and delicious Sweet Pongal  is ready. 

    Offer Pongal to Lord Sun and enjoy this Kite Festival with your friends and family. 

Note

* You can also use grated nutmeg and clove to get more divine taste and flavour. 

* You can skip adding milk. 

* Adjust jaggery quantity as per your taste. 

Tips

** Do not close the pressure cooker lid immediately after adding water and milk. Let it boil for 2 minutes and then close it. This process will stops the draining of water from cooker while getting whistle. 

** Adding milk will give good taste and texture. 

** Important point to remember is add edible camphor not ordinary camphor. And very very little amount of edible camphor is added by crushing it with your fingures.

** If you feel your sweet pongal very thick then add hot milk or water and adjust consistency. I prefer adding hot or boiled milk. 

** If you want to have it like dessert then keep it in refrigerator for atleast 2 hr and serve it sool. 

** You can increase or decrease ghee quantity as per your taste. But remember adding good amount of ghee gives you delicious taste and texture to sweet pongal. 

Also check other sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic

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Poha Badam Ladoo

   

                       Ragi Peanut ladoo               
     

Moong dal Kheer

Poha Payasam

Dates & dry fruits burfi

        Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

          Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

  Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

                        Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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