Sweet Pongal

This is a traditional pongal recipe which my mom still follows till date. There have been a lot of variations to this recipe, but the taste that this one has is delicious. This pongal is made along with salt pongal and medu vadas on pongal day.

Cook Time: 1hr

Ingredients

• 1 cup Raw Rice

• 2 tbsp Yellow moong dal

• 3 cups Jaggery

• 1 tsp Cardamom powder

• 4 tbsp Broken cashew nuts and raisins

• 10 tbsp Ghee

• A pinch of edible camphor powder

Instructions

1. Dry roast the moong dal till light brown and cook it along with the rice in a cooker

2. In a kadai take the jaggery along with 1 cup of water and boil only till the jaggery melts

3. Filter the jaggery solution for impurities and pour it back into the pan

4. Add half the ghee and the cooked rice-dal mixture and stir well

5. Add all but 1 tbsp of ghee and mix well. Turn off the gas at this point.

6. In a small pan, take 1 tbsp of ghee and roast the cashew nuts and raisins and add it to the pongal

7. Sprinkle cardamom powder and crush the camphor powder and add

8. Serve hot after neivedyam