Chakara Pongal

Chakara Pongal (Sweet Pongal)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice
• ¼ cup moong dal
• ½ cup jaggery
• 1/2 cups milk
• 1 cup ghee
• ¼ cup cashews
• ¼ cup golden raisins
• 2 elaichi

Method:

• Roast moong dal in a pan for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Cook rice, moong dal, milk and 3 cups of water till the rice gets cooked.
• Melt jaggery, by boiling it with little water, and mix this with the cooked rice.
• Put ghee and keep stirring until everything blends well.
• Fry cashews, raisins in little ghee and add this to the above.
• Pound elaichis, and add this.