Description A sweet dish prepared with rice and jaggery
Ingredients
- 1 cup moong dhal
- 2 cups rice
- 500 g jaggery
- 1/2 tsp cardamon powder
- 50 g cashewnuts
- 50 g raisins
- ghee
Method
- Make a syrup with the jaggery and 3 cups water. Boil till it reaches a one string consistency.
- Dry roast the moong dhal lightly. Cook it with the rice till it is well done.
- Strain the jaggery syrup into the rice and dhal mixture and continue cooking for another 10 minutes.
- Keep stirring so that it does not burn at the bottom of the vessel.
- Heat the ghee and fry the cashewnuts till they are golden in coulour. Turn off the heat and add the raisins.
- Add this to the chakkara pongal along with the cardamon powder.