Sweet Pongal

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Rice
• 1/3 cup Green Gram Dal
• 1 and 1/2 cups Powdered Jaggery
• 5 cups Water
• 1 tbsp Cashewnuts
• 1/4 cup Ghee
• 1 tbsp Raisins
• 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder

Method:

• Roast gram dal in a pan till it turns light brown.
• Wash roasted dal along with rice.
• Put it into a pressure cooker with 4 and1/2 cups of water.
• Cook for about 10 minutes.
• Completely dissolve jaggery in half cup of water in a shallow pan.
• Remove the dirt by straining it and heat once again until you achieve one string consistency.
• Now mix cooked rice dal mixture into it and keep on a medium flame for few minutes.
• Remove the mixture from the flame.
• Fry cashew nuts and raisins separately in ghee.
• Mix it to the prepared pongal and add cardamom powder.
• Sweet Pongal is ready to serve.