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Monday, 14 January 2019

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

Ellu Bella Mix

Pineapple Sheera

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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Saturday, 12 January 2019

Ellu Bella || Ellu Bella Mix || Karnataka Sankranti special Ellu Bella Mix

Hi Friends,

Wish you happy Makara Sankranti to you and your family 🌞🍉🍌🍋🍍🍎🍏🍆🥕🥒🌽🌶️🥜🍇🌴🍁🌳🍀🌿🌾🌻🌼🌷🌱🌳🌺🌹🏵️💮🦋🌴🍊💞
(in advance). Makara Sankranti is festival of Lord Sun 🌞.In different regions it is celebrated in different dates, different names and different food😋. D't see like that 😉 where ever I go I stop at food becoz I am big foodie 🤗😍. Today's recipe is Ellu(Sesame seeds) Bella(jaggery) mix, which is prepared in every kannada family's and in parts of Karnataka. As a Kannadiga Ellu Bellu is one of my favourite from childhood, I not only love its taste but also like its flavour too😍😍. Ellu Bella Mix is healthy as the ingredients mixed in it are power packed, ingredients like ellu (Sesame seeds), bella(jaggery), dry coconut, nuts which contains calcium, iron, required to rejuvenate our body in this winter season. We use achu bella (yellow color jaggery) to prepare this but here in Jolarpet it's not available so I used brown color jaggery.

There is popular saying in kannada that "ellu bella tindu olle maathadi" means "eat sesame seeds and jaggery and speak good words"😍😍. Ellu bella mix is packed and we offer to friends and family along with fruits, sugarcane and tell the above lines 🤗 spread happy and joy🌸.

Ellu Bella Mix

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Desserts/Sweets
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients :Sesame seeds,
Jaggery
Author : Arunasaraschandra

Ingredients

Sesame seeds/ellu/nuvullu- 1/2cup
Jaggery/ achina Bella - 1/2 cup
Ground nuts - 1/2 cup
Roasted chanadal/putnalu/hurigadale - 1/2 cup
Dry coconut - 1/2 cup
Candid cumin/ jeerige metai - 1/4 cup
White pearl sugar balls - 1/4 cup(I did not added)
Instructions

1) Remove the brown part of dry coconut using grater.

2) Cut the above dry coconut into small pieces.

3) Also cut the jaggery into small pieces. Use yellow mould jaggery if available.

4) Take a pan dry roast ground nuts on medium - low flames.

5) Let it cool and remove its skin and keep it aside.

6) In the same pan/Kadai add sesame seeds fry till it starts crackling.

7) Now switch off the flames and fry roasted Chana dal on the heat and take it into plate.

8) It's time to start mixing the above ingredients. Take a dry bowl add fried ingredients one after other.

9) Mix above everything well

Healthy, tasty and festive sweet ellu bella mix is ready 😍😋🍁.

Note

* Adjust quantity as per your wish.

* You can also sugar candy balls.

Tips

** Sun dry jaggery and dry coconut to increase the shell life and taste.

Also check other sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic