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Chakara Pongal

Sweet Pongal
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Tamil
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Rice
  • 1/4 cup Green gram Cheruparippu
  • 1 1/2 cup Jaggery Sharkkara
  • 2 cups Milk
  • 1/2 cup Ghee
  • 4 nos Cloves Grambu
  • 1 tsp Nutmeg powder Jathikka
  • 1/4 cup Cashews
  • 1/4 cup Raisins Onakka munthiri
  • 4 nos Cardamom Elakka
  • Edible camphor(Pacha karpooram)(optional)

Instructions
 

  • Fry the rice and the green gram(moong dhal) in a pan, till the colour of the dhal starts to change.
  • Cook rice, dhal and milk along with 3 cups of water, till the rice gets cooked.
  • Melt jaggery, by boiling it in a little water.
  • Mix the melted jaggery with the cooked rice.
  • Add ghee and keep stirring, until everything blends well.
  • Fry cashews, raisins and cloves in little ghee and add this to the above.
  • Pound cardamoms, edible camphor and nutmeg and add this to the pongal.
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