Saturday, January 1, 2011

Chekkara Pongali

Happy New Year 2011.
Welcomed the New Year with a traditional south Indian sweet.
Rice and Moong Dal are cooked in jaggery syrup and garnished with raisins, cashews and almonds for this melt in the mouth dessert.


Ingredients:
1 cup rice

¼ cup moong dal

2 cups milk

1 – 1 ½ cup jaggery (adjust to taste)

2 tbsp ghee

Cashews, Almonds and Raisins for garnishing

Pinch of cardamom powder

Procedure:
Pressure cook rice and moong dal in two cups of milk and one cup of water.

Melt jaggery in a cup of water.

Add cooked rice and dal to the jaggery syrup and simmer, add 1 tbsp of ghee.

Shallow fry raisins, almonds and cashews in the remaining ghee and add it to the pongal.

Add cardamom powder.

Remove from flame and serve it warm.

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