Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chakkara / sakkarai pongal. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chakkara / Sakkarai Pongal is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chakkara / Sakkarai Pongal is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Chakkara pongal or sakkarai pongal are the other names. Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, jaggery or sugar, cardamoms and nuts. Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chakkara / sakkarai pongal using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chakkara / Sakkarai Pongal:
- Take 1/2 cup Rice
- Make ready Yellow Moong dal 1/4 th cup
- Get Jeggary / gud 1 and 1/2 cup
- Take Water
- Make ready 1-2 tablespoon Mixed Whole cashew nuts, almond and Raisins
- Get Cardamom powder 1/4 th teaspoon
- Take 2 teaspoon Ghee
Sweet Pongal (chakarai Pongal) Recipe, How To Make Sweet Pongal (chakarai Pongal) Recipe. Pongal is a popular rice porridge dish based in South India. Pongal is unique to South Indian cuisine. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai pongaL In Tamil language and is a sweet dish made during festive occasions in South India.
Steps to make Chakkara / Sakkarai Pongal:
- Ingredients
- Dry roast dal and rice on low heat till changes colour and Crisp
- Remove from heat and wash with water
- Saute dry fruits in ghee and keep aside
- Now pressure cook rotated dal and rice in sufficient water for 2 to 3 whistles
- Now add jeggary and cardamom powder
- Add some water to adjust consistency and cook well till everything gets properly mixed and homogeneous
- Garnish with fried dry fruits and serve hot or cold.. it tastes equally yum
Another similar variation is this Chakkara Pongal made with sugar. Sakkarai pongal recipe or sweet pongal recipe: we don't celebrate pongal festival back in Kerala. This should explain why I am posting this traditional pongal festival recipe in March. Sakkarai Pongal Recipe with milk is my fav. Rice with moong dhal cooked in jaggery and milk simmered and then garnished with ghee roasted cashews and raisins….who will say no to it.
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