Kalkandu Pongal Recipe

Kalkandu Pongal Recipe

I was little worried that i didn't post any new recipes for pongal this year. Always wanted to make something new this pongal, but somehow i couldn't find time to make. This morning when i woke up, i was stubborn to make something and guess what i made not one but two recipes for this pongal.

About Kalkandu Pongal Recipe

Kalkandu pongal is a white pongal in which the pongal made with rice and moong dal is sweetened with palm candy | kalkandu.

I saw this pongal recipe in quite a few blogs, and i wanted to try it so badly. So i gave it a shot and it came out quite good. For me it tasted like sarkarai pongal in white form. But the taste was so good, everyone loved it. And when i was shooting this, my sister brought maha. As you can see she has started grabbing things:)

Ingredients for Kalkandu Pongal

• Raw Rice / Pacharisi
• Milk
• Kalkandu / Sugar Candy
• Cardamom Powder / Yelakai Podi
• Ghee
• Cashew
• Kishmish / Sultanas

Kalkandu Pongal Preparation

• Take kalkandu in a mixer and powder it finely.Set aside till use.
• Take raw rice in a bowl and wash it well. Drain the water and take the rice in pressure cooker. Add milk to it, cook this for 5 whistle, simmer the flame and cook for 10 mins. Now turn off the heat and let the pressure go all by itself. Open the pressure cooker and mix the rice with a spoon.
• Put this cooker back on heat and reduce the flame to a low.
• Add Powdered kalkadu to the hot rice and mix well. Keep this on low flame and mix well. Cook till the mix is thick.
• Melt some ghee in a kadai and fry some cashews and sultanas.
• Now add in the fried nuts and cardamom powder to the rice and mix well.
• Serve hot.

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Kalkandu Pongal Recipe

Delicious sweet pongal made with kalkandu. This kalkandu pongal is melt in mouth and taste so delicious.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 servings

Ingredients

  

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• Raw Rice / Pacharisi - ½ cup You can use any rice
• Milk - 2 cup
• Kalkandu / Sugar Candy - ⅓ cup or adjust as you like
• Cardamom Powder / Yelakai Podi - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tblspn
• Cashew - 2 tblspn
• Kishmish / Sultanas - 2 tblspn

Instructions

 

• Take kalkandu in a mixer and powder it finely.Set aside till use.
• Take raw rice in a bowl and wash it well. Drain the water and take the rice in pressure cooker. Add milk to it, cook this for 5 whistle, simmer the flame and cook for 10 mins. Now turn off the heat and let the pressure go all by itself. Open the pressure cooker and mix the rice with a spoon.
• Put this cooker back on heat and reduce the flame to a low.
• Add Powdered kalkadu to the hot rice and mix well. Keep this on low flame and mix well. Cook till the mix is thick.
• Now melt some ghee in a kadai and fry some cashews and sultanas.
• Now add in the fried nuts and cardamom powder to the rice and mix well.
• Serve hot.

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Notes

1)If you cannot find raw rice, you can use any rice you like.
2) Adjust the sweet level as you like.

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