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Sakkarai Pongal ( pongalo pongal pongalo pongal) Iniya pongal nal vazthukal. Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu. Chakkara Pongal is a delicacy made from newly harvested rice. Wish you a very happy and prosperous Tamil new year.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have sarkarai pongal (tamilnadu traditional dish) using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sarkarai pongal (Tamilnadu traditional dish):
- Prepare 1 cup raw rice (any kind)
- Get 1/4 cup moong dal
- Get 3 cups water (to cook rice & dal)
- Get 1/8 teaspoon green cardamom powder
- Get 1 small pinch edible camphor pacha karpooram (optional)
- Get 2-3 tablespoons Ghee or more – use as desired
- Make ready 1 tablespoon raisins
- Prepare 12 cashew nuts split or broken
- Make ready 2 tablespoons coconut pieces, sliced or chopped (optional)
- Make ready 2 cups jaggery powdered or grated
Pongal or huggi is a popular South Indian rice dish. In Tamil "pongal" means "bubbling up". In Telugu and Kannada, pongali is a dish of rice mixed with boiled milk and sugar. Sweet pongal is a delicious festive dish made with rice, dal, jaggery, ghee & nuts.
Instructions to make Sarkarai pongal (Tamilnadu traditional dish):
- Preparation for sweet pongal- - Add 1/4 cup moong dal to a heavy bottom pan or pressure cooker
- Roast it on a medium flame stirring often till the dal turns fragrant. - Next add 1cup rice to the same pan and wash both of them at least 2 to 3 times. Drain the water completely.
- Pour 3 cups of water. Cook till soft either in the pressure cooker for 2 whistles or in the pot. - You can also put the rice & dal in a bowl and pour water. Place the bowl in a pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 3 whistles.
- You can also skip this step & add clean jaggery or sugar directly to the mashed rice. If making syrup, transfer ¼ cup water & ½ cup grated jaggery to a pan.
- On a low flame stir and melt it. Boil until slightly thick & sticky. Do not over cook as this turns too thick after cooling. Set this aside.
- When the pressure releases, open the cooker and mash the rice & dal lightly. - Next filter jaggery syrup to the cooked rice & dal. Add 1/8 teaspoon green cardamom powder
- Add 2 tablespoons coconut pieces (optional) and fry them till they turn golden & aromatic. Transfer only the coconut pieces to a plate
- Mix and cook on a medium flame till the jaggery syrup blends well with rice. - It should begin to bubble up well. Turn off the stove. - Heat a pan with 2 to 3 tablespoons ghee on a medium flame.
- Fry 12 cashew nuts & till golden in the same ghee. - Add 1 tablespoon raisins and fry until they turn plump.
- Off the stove and add 1 small pinch camphor (karpuram). Pour this to the sweet pongal & mix well.
- Chakkara pongal is ready. Always cool the food before offering to God or goddess or deities.
In Telugu and Kannada, pongali is a dish of rice mixed with boiled milk and sugar. Sweet pongal is a delicious festive dish made with rice, dal, jaggery, ghee & nuts. Sweet pongal is known as chakkara pongali in. Sakkarai Pongal is one of the common and popular dish in Tamil Nadu and South India. There are different variations being followed in making of the Sakkarai pongal based on.
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