Ingredients

• Green rice – 250 g
• Moong dal – 65 g
• Chana dal – 35 g
• Milk – 500 ml
• Cardamom pods – 7
• Jaggery – 450 g
• Ghee – 50ml
• Cashew nuts – 3 tbsp
• Raisin – 2 tbsp
• Coconut – 1

How to Prepare

Total Preparation Time:

1. Wash rice and soak it in 500 ml water and keep aside
2. Take bowl and add 100 ml water, dissolve jaggery then filter the syrup to avoid tiny particles and keep it aside
3. Grate coconut finely and keep aside
4. Heat the pan and add moong dal, fry for 20 seconds
5. Add Chana dal and roast for 20 seconds until the moong dal eject aroma smell
6. Add roasted dals in soaked rice and soak it for 20 minutes
7. Take a rice mud pot clean it well and place it over the stove and heats up
8. Pour 750 ml water and 500 ml milk and boil them nicely until the milk rised up from the pot
9. Reduce the flame then slowly add soaked rice and dal using a ladle
10. Add the soaked water into pot then stirred it nicely then add cardamom
11. Stir it gently and allow them to cook for 5 minutes till the rice and dal almost cooked
12. Add this jaggery syrup into it and stir it gently and mix it well
13. Cook it for 7-8 minutes in low flame
14. In the mean time, heat up a pan and add ghee
15. After ghee melts, add cashew nuts and raisins and fry them for 1 minute
16. Once ghee starts to bubble, add 100g of grated coconut
17. Roast this seasoning mixture for 2 minutes then add it to pongal.
18. Mix it well in low flame for 4 minutes
19. Now the Sweet Pongal is ready to serve