Sweet Pongal

 

                                                                                                            

Sweet Pongal

Ingredients (for two people) : -  

Moong dhal - 1/2 cup.            

Rice       - 1/2 cup.            

Milk

Coconut 

cashew 

jaggery                                                                       

raisins (khish-mish - dry grapes)                                            

cardamom                                                          

ghee.                                                                       

                                                                            

Fry the moong dhal (before washing) till it becomes little light brown (it  

will start smelling). Then soak rice and dhal separately for 10 minutes.    

Thoroghly wash and keep it in cooker with the right water (lesser is o.k)and

cook it seperately (in two different containers). Meanwhile cut coconut in  

very small pieces and fry in ghee. Fry cashew and raisins also separately.  

Break the jagerry and put in water (very little) and make a syrup.  This is  

done because sometimes jagerry has mud and stones. After we make the syrup

strain it through tea strainer. Put the rice and dhal in a big vessel and   

add milk (may be one  cup) and cook it till all the milk gets absorbed. Add  

jaggery syrup and again cook till even it gets absorbed. Add three big table

spoons of ghee, powdered cardamon and cook again for a while. Add fried     

coconut, cashews and raisins.                                                

                                                                              

Serve hot in two cups with a spoon of ghee.