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Home » Indian sweet

Sakkarai Pongal

Last Updated on February 16, 2022

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Sakkarai Pongal is made with rice, lentil, ghee, jaggery topped off with fried nuts and raisins. It is made during Indian festivals and special occasions. The wafting aroma of heated ghee from the kitchen was hard to ignore, that nutty heavenly scent put patience to test.The kids would run helter skelter like hungry cats in and out of the kitchen but nothing was portioned and distributed until pooja was over..all the while granny would keep watch on the food. She looked at the little people like a territory guard and her amplifier swallowed voice was enough to scare  the heck out of them. 🙂 There's an unexplainable relief on everyone's face to finally get a scoop from the still hot brass pot oozing with goodness. . . 
 
sakkarai pongal

The burning of perfumed incenses and camphor mixed with food aromas just gives a divine feeling. It definitely elevates ones spirits and thats the true meaning of pongal too..to rise. 
sakkarai pongal, elephants and the coconut trees
 

Ingredients:
Rice -1/2 cup
Moong dal (split without skin) -  2 tbsp
Jaggery -  1/2 cup or more darkest variety
Cardamom powder- of 3 pods freshly powdered
Ghee - 2-3 tbsp
Milk full fat or heavy cream - 2 tbsp (Heavy cream adds extra taste)
Cashew nut - 6-8 split
Almond- broken into pieces
Raisins -2 tbsp

Method:
Soak rice for 20 minutes.
Melt jaggery in a pan add adding 1/ cup water. Strain off all impurities. Keep aside.
Heat a heavy bottom pan and dry roast the moong dal till a nice nutty aroma comes then wash and soak along with rice.
Cook rice and dal adding enough water in a rice cooker or pressure cooker to get a soggy consistency.
Once cooked mash rice and dal slightly adding milk or H.cream.
Bring the jaggery syrup to boil and slightly thicken it then add the mashed rice and cook on slow flame for 5 mts adding 1 tbsp ghee if the liquid dries quickly add lil more milk.Remove from flame.
Heat rest of the ghee in a pan and fry the nuts first to light brown then add raisins when they flare up switch off flame and pour whole thing on to the sarkarai pongal mix well.
After the pooja, pongal can be served warm as prasadam or cold winter days serve in ice cream cups with warm steel spoons. Ur family will love it after dinner.

 
 

There is no hard work here its as easy as cooking a pot of rice. A warm traditional dessert that can be served on a cold winter evening instead of fancy ones. . .

sakkarai pongal

Hope you like it. Happy Pongal to u all.
Meena

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  1. Jyothi Rajesh

    January 15, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    Looks really delicious Meena.. This is so yum

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  2. Framed Recipes

    January 15, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    Happy Pongal to you Meena. That was a vivid description. - Sreelatha

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  3. Swathi Iyer

    January 15, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    Delicious sakkarai pongal.

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  4. Anupa Joseph (Palaharam)

    January 15, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    Looks super yumm....that first picture made me hungry in the middle of the night...look what u did to me ..he he

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  5. Jayasri Ravi

    January 16, 2016 at 9:15 am

    Beautiful clicks Meena

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  6. Meena Kumar

    January 16, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    Thank u Jyothi.

    Reply
  7. Meena Kumar

    January 16, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    Hee hee thank u Sree.

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  8. Meena Kumar

    January 16, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    Thank u Swathi.

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  9. Meena Kumar

    January 16, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    Oh sorry dear :)) come here we will have together.

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  10. Meena Kumar

    January 16, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    Thank u Jayasri.

    Reply
  11. Rafeeda AR

    January 17, 2016 at 5:58 am

    That pongal is driving me nuts! Sounds similar to our kicheri but yes different here and there... so tempted to make them when I get my hands on some dark colored jaggery...

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  12. Famidha Ashraf

    January 17, 2016 at 12:12 pm

    it does make me want to make it right away!

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  13. Meena Kumar

    January 17, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    He hee ..ya dark jaggery gives it a nice brown.

    Reply
  14. Meena Kumar

    January 17, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Thank u Famidha do try it.

    Reply

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