Sweet Pongal

Pongal is a very popular south Indian dish made with rice. There are various varieties of pongal like sweet pongal (made with sugar / jaggery or sometimes with both) and ven pongal made with mixed spices. Hope you had already seen the ven pogal preparation process in my blog so now lets see how to prepare sweet pongal with jaggery.

Sweet Pongal

Ingredients Serve -4

• Moong dal – ½ glass
• Rice – ½ glass
• Water – 3 & 1/4 glass
• Jaggary powder – ½ cup
• Cardamom – 3
• Kaju – 10
• Kishmish -10
• Ghee – 8tspn

The following picture shows the step by step process for Sweet Pongal:

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 Method:

1. Wash and soak moong dhal and rice for 15 min.
2. Take a pressure cooker, add moong dal, rice & 3 glass of water. Close with lid and cook for 3 vessels in medium flame. (figure 1 & 2)
3. Take a small pan add ¼ glass water,  jaggery and cook until jaggery gets fully melts. (figure 3 & 4)
4. Mean while, open the lid slowly and smash the mixture well. (figure 5)
5. Now transfer melted jaggery into dhal mixture which has been prepared in step 4 and mix well without lumps. (figure 6)
6. Take a pan, heat ghee and add kaju, kishmish. Roast them until color changes to golden brown.(figure 7)
7.  Transfer them along with ghee, cardamom into the dhal mixture and mix well. (figure 8)
8. Serve in a bowl. (figure 9)

Tasty & yummy sweet pongal is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In step 3, smash the mixture well or else when we add jaggary syrup into it then rice will become as separate grain.