Delicious sweet pongal made with kalkandu. This kalkandu pongal is melt in mouth and taste so delicious.
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.
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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
Ingredients
- 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
2) Adjust the sweet level as you like.
Kalkandu Pongal with Step by Step Pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| This is the rice which is traditionally used, it is called as raw rice or pacharisi |
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| Wash it well |
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| Add to pressure cooker |
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| Cover with milk |
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| Pressure cook |
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| Take kalkandu in mixer |
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| Powder it |
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| Now the rice is done |
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| Add in powder kalkandu |
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| Mix well |
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| Melt some ghee in kadai |
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| Heat it up |
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| Add in cashews and sultanas |
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| Fry them till golden |
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| Now add cardamom powder to rice |
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| Add the fried nuts |
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| Mix well |
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| Serve |
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R.Sindhuja
Hi Aarthi, How r u? I love ur blog & am a regular visitor too. Whether the milk added in the kalkandu pongal is a boiled milk or raw milk ?
Aarthi
@R.SindhujaIt is raw milk
Kanmani Saroja
Hi can we use sugar instead of sugar candy?
Kanmani Saroja
Hi can we use sugar instead of sugar candy?