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 SWEET PONGAL

 

Ingredients:

• Rice- 1 cup
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
  
• Green gram dhal - 1/3cup
• Jaggery - 1 and 1/4cups
• Cashewnuts - 1tbsp
• Raisins - 1tbsp
• Cardamon powder -1/2tsp

 Recipe Directions:

• In a dry pan roast slightly green gram dhal till raw flavor comes out. Wash it along with rice and pressure cook in a container with 4 1/2 cups of water, for 10 minutes.
• Heat jaggery with half a cup of water in a thick shallow sauce pan till it dissolves completely.
• Strain to remove dirt and once again heat it till you reach one string consistency.
• Add cooked pongal to that and mix well in a medium flame for few minutes for few minutes. Remover from fire.
• Heat ghee separately and fry cashewnuts  and raisins.
• Add it to pongal along with cardamom powder. Serve hot.