Thursday, January 17, 2008

sweet pongal


In this recipe of sweet pongal i have used more sweet but it can be adjusted to your taste..



Ingredients

1 cup rice
1/2 cup moong dal
1 cup jaggery( melted and strained)
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp cashews
1 tsp raisins
1/2 tsp cardamom (powdered)
3 tsp ghee

Method

Cook dal and rice together till done and keep them aside. Heat 1 tsp ghee in a heavy bottom pan and fry the cashews and raisins in it and keep aside. Then add 1 tsp ghee and the cooked dal and rice to the pan. Stir till ghee coats the rice. Now add milk and jaggery to the rice and keep stirring till it starts leaving the sides of the pan, then add the remaining ghee and stir for 2 more min. At last add the raisins and cashews mix well and serve hot.

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