Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Sweet Pongal

Ingredients
1/4 cup rice (akki)
1/4 cup green gram dal (hesaru bele)
1/4 cup ghee (thuppa)
1/4 cup dry shredded coconut (ona kobbari thuri)
1/2 cup brown sugar or jaggery (bella)
1/4 cup sugar (sakkare)
Cashew nuts and raisins (godambi, drakshi)
1/2 Liter milk

Method
Take a pan add cashew nuts and raisins fry in 1/4 tsp ghee until golden brown, take out from the pan. Put it aside. Now add the green gram dal (hesaru bele) fry until aroma comes, take the green gram dal out of the pan. Then add the rice, fry for five minuets, take the rice out from the pan. Take pressure cooker pan add shallow fried rice and green gram dal with 1 to 1 1/2 cups of water. Cover the cooker and cook until 1 or 2 whistles, let it cool down. Take pot or pan place it on the stove, add cooked rice, green gram dal, milk, brown sugar, sugar, dry sredded  coconut and bring it boil. If requires add more milk or water. Now add ghee (thuppa). Take out from the stove. Garnish with cashew nuts and raisins. Sweet pongal is ready to eat.
Serving size ; 4 to 6

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