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Chakkara pongal recipe | Sweet pongal recipe | Sakkarai pongal using sugar

Written By Parveen Rathi on Sunday, June 3, 2018 | June 03, 2018

Chakkara pongal | Sweet pongal

Chakkara Pongal is a yummy recipe. Food lovers drool over this recipe. The dish is ideal for special occasions with family and loved ones. Chakkara pongal is the perfect option if you want to surprise your friends with something nutritious and delicious at the same time. Chakkara pongal is loved by people of all age groups. parveen created this Chakkara pongal with love and best ingredients. So what are you waiting for? Put on your apron and get cooking this awesome Chakkara pongal. Try this delicious Chakkara pongal at home and enjoy the yummy flavours with your loved ones. The various steps of Chakkara pongal are provided so that you can cook this delicious Chakkara pongal easily.

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Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

for sweet pongal

  • ½ cup rice
  • ½ cup yellow moong dal / pesara pappu
  • ¾ cup brown sugar or white sugar or jaggery or kalakandu (rock sugar)
  • Small Pinch of edible camphor/ pacha karpuram (optional)
  •  Tsp green cardamom powder
  • 2 ½ cups water
  • Few Cashews
  • Few Raisins
  • 2 tbsp. ghee

Optional

  • ¼ cup full fat milk

How to make the recipe

Preparing

  1. Add dal and rice to a pressure cooker or pot. Wash them very well.
  2. If possible soak them for 15 mins before cooking.
  3. Add water and cook till the rice & dal is fully cooked. Allow the water to evaporate fully if more water is left. If cooking in a pressure cooker, allow to whistle once on a medium heat. If using milk, you can add it now and cook until the pongal absorbs all the moisture.

making sweet pongal

  1. Add sugar, cardamom powder and mix well. Cook till all the moisture from the sugar evaporates.
  2. Fry nuts and raisins in ghee, set the nuts aside. Off the stove, add camphor and pour the ghee to the rice.
  3. Cover the rice for at least 5 to 10 mins. Garnish chakkara pongal with nuts.
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