Chakkara or Sweet Pongal
Chakkara or Sweet Pongal

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chakkara or sweet pongal. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, jaggery or sugar, cardamoms and nuts. Sweet pongal is known as chakkara pongali in telugu & sakkarai pongal in tamil. Home » Festival Recipes » Sweet Pongal or Chakkara Pongal.

Chakkara or Sweet Pongal is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chakkara or Sweet Pongal is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chakkara or sweet pongal using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chakkara or Sweet Pongal:
  1. Make ready 1/2 cup rice
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup moong dal
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup jaggery
  4. Get 2 tbsp green cardamom powder
  5. Prepare 1 pinch eatable orange colour
  6. Take 2 cup water
  7. Take 5-6 raisins
  8. Make ready 5-6 cashews
  9. Make ready 5-6 almonds
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp ghee

Chakkara Pongal is a delicacy made from newly harvested rice. Today let us learn how to make sakkarai pongal or sweet pongal following our easy and fool proof recipe with step wise pictures. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai pongaL In Tamil language and is a sweet dish made during festive occasions in South India. Another similar variation is this Chakkara Pongal made with sugar.

Instructions to make Chakkara or Sweet Pongal:
  1. Take a pan,roast the moong dal.
  2. Cook till it turns fragnance.
  3. Add rice to the same pan & wash with water.
  4. Add 2 cup of water in a pressure cooker & add roasted dal, rice& green cardamom powder.Give 2 whistles & switch off the flame.
  5. Take another pan,pour 1/2 cup water with 1/2 cup of jaggery.
  6. Cook till all the jaggery dissolved in the water.
  7. Open the lid of cooker & mash the rice little with masher.
  8. Now add jaggery syrup in it & mix well.
  9. Cook till all the jaggery syrup is absorbed in the cooked rice & dal.
  10. Take a pan,pour 1 tbsp of ghee in it & roast the raisins, cashews & almonds.
  11. Take it out in a serving plate & pour roasted dryfruits with ghee on it.
  12. Serve hot.

There are some South Indian recipes served in temples which are a favorite with me - Ven Pongal. This sweet pongal recipe gets ready to serve in just half an hour. Thus, this step by step sweet pongal recipe is great if you want to make a sinfully tasty treat in record time. The best part is, this Chakkara Pongali recipe is made with healthful ingredients like jaggery, moong dal, coconut milk, rice and dry. Chakkara Pongali Recipe - Andhra style sweet pongal recipe prepared with sugar, milk, rice and dal.

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