Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Quick Sarkkarai Pongal/Sweet Pongal Cooking Basics for Newbies

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. In this video we will see how to make Sakkarai Pongal / Sweet Pongal recipe in Tamil. Pongal is a south indian festival dedicated to agriculture and harvest.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sarkkarai pongal/sweet pongal using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sarkkarai Pongal/Sweet Pongal:

1. Take 1 cup Raw Rice
2. Make ready 3/4 cup Dark coloured Jaggery/Pagu Vellam/Unsalted Jaggery
3. Get Water-as required
4. Make ready Ghee-as required
5. Prepare Cashewnuts few
6. Prepare Kismis Few
7. Take 1/4 tsp Elachi powder

Pongal is one of the most popular four day long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu. Today let us learn how to make sakkarai pongal or sweet pongal following our easy and fool proof recipe with step wise pictures. Sakkarai pongal recipe - traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe. Traditionally sweet pongal is made with just jaggery rice and moong dal as main Having tried this recipe many times now thought to share the recipe here.

Instructions to make Sarkkarai Pongal/Sweet Pongal:

1. In a large vessel add some water. When it starts to boil, add the washed rice. Cover and cook till the rice gets cooked.
2. Remove the excess water using a laddle/spoon.
3. Let it boil till the rice becomes little mushy. Keep the flame in medium.
4. In another pan add the jaggery and 2 tsp water. Let it melt. Switch off the flame and strain to remove impurities.
5. Add the melted jaggery to the rice, mix well and let it boil in low flame.
6. In another pan, add ghee. Once ghee gets heat add cashews and kismis. Fry in medium flame.
7. Now add this to the cooked rice. Add elachi powder and mix well. Switch off the flame.
8. Transfer to a bowl. Now it's ready to serve.

Sakkarai pongal recipe - traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe. Traditionally sweet pongal is made with just jaggery rice and moong dal as main Having tried this recipe many times now thought to share the recipe here. We call this sweet pongal as sakkarai pongal or chakkarai pongal in tamil. Sweet Pongal is also known as sakkarai ponga L 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.

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