Sweet Pongal Recipe | Chakkara Pongali | Sakkarai Pongal Recipe

Chakarai pongal or chakkara pongali , Sweet pongal with step by step pictures and video. It is generally prepared in temples as a prasadam, (an offering made to a deity). This type of pongal is made during the Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu and during Sankranthi festival in Andhra Pradesh.

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Sweet Pongal Recipe

Pongal or Huggi is a popular Indian rice dish. In Tamil "pongal" means "To Boil" or "bubbling up". In Telugu and Kannada, pongali is a dish of rice mixed with boiled milk and sugar.In telugu it is known as Pongali.

The two varieties of pongal are chakarai pongal, which is sweet, and venn pongal, which is made from clarified butter. The word pongal generally refers to spicy venn pongal and is a common breakfast food. Chakarai pongal is made during the Pongal festival.

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Chakarai pongal or chakkara pongali , Sweet pongal with step by step pictures and video. It is generally prepared in temples as a prasadam, (an offering made to a deity). This type of pongal is made during the Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu and during Sankranthi festival in Andhra Pradesh.Ingredients can include rice, coconut, and mung bean. Chakarai Pongal is often sweetened with jaggery, which gives pongal a brown color, though it can be sweetened with white sugar instead.

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Chakkara Pongal Ingredients

RAW RICE / PACHARISI 

Raw rice is added for best texture and taste. It has more starch content which is best for making sweet pongal.

YELLOW MOONG DAL / PASI PARUPPU

Moong dal is roasted and added in the pongal for better taste.

MILK

In many pongal recipes milk is not added. But adding a little milk makes it more creamy and tasty.

JAGGERY / SARKARAI / VELLAM

You can add more jaggery as per your sweetness level. If you are assure of your jaggery quality. You can add it directly.

CARDAMOM / YELAKAI

Cardamom is completely for flavour.

GHEE

Use pure ghee for taste.

Sweet Pongal Video

Sweet Pongal Preparation

• Take 1 tsp of ghee and roast moong dal till nice aroma comes. Remove on to a bowl. Add rice to that and soak this both for around 15 mins.
• Now drain it and put this in a pressure cooker along with milk and let it come to a boil. Now cover with a lid. Cook for 3 whistles or for 15-20 mins on low flame. Let the pressure go by itself. Remove it and mush it up with a spoon.
• Meanwhile add 1 cup of water to jaggery and mix well, so that it gets dissolved. Pour this jaggery water over the cooked rice and dal through a sieve and mix well.
• Take a kadai and add ghee in it. Add cashews, kishmish and cardamom in it and mix well. Fry till cashews turn light golden.
• Now add the rice mixture in this and mix well. Stir for 5 mins on a low flame so that all flavours gets united. You could add some grated coconut at this point and mix well.
• Remove it and serve. 

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Sweet Pongal Recipe | Chakkara Pongali | Sakkarai Pongal Recipe

Chakarai pongal or chakkara pongali , Sweet pongal with step by step pictures and video. It is generally prepared in temples as a prasadam, (an offering made to a deity). This type of pongal is made during the Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu and during Sankranthi festival in Andhra Pradesh.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes minutes

Servings: 6 servings

Calories: 566kcal

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 cup Raw Rice
• ▢ ½ cup Yellow Split Moong Dal
• ▢ 3 cups water
• ▢ 1 cup Milk
• ▢ 2 cups Jaggery
• ▢ 1 cup Water
• ▢ ½ tsp Salt
• ▢ 1 tsp Dry Ginger Powder
• ▢ 1 tsp Cardamom powder
• ▢ ½ cup Ghee
• ▢ 10 Cashews
• ▢ 4 tbsp Kishmish
• ▢ a pinch edible camphor

Instructions

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  In a pressure cooker. Add in moong dal and roast them on low heat till light golden brown and fragrant.
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  Remove this to a bowl. Add rice and wash them well.
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  Take this back in pressure cooker, add in salt, water, milk and 1 tbsp ghee. Cover and pressure cook for 3 whistle. Turn off the heat and let the steam release by itself.
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  Meanwhile take jaggery and water in a sauce pan. Bring it to a boil. Cook this for 5 mins till it thickens lightly.
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  Now strain this into the cooked rice and mix well.
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  Add in ghee little at a time around 2 tbsp and keep cooking on medium low heat for 8 to 10 mins.
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  Now add in cardamom powder, ginger powder, edible camphor and mix well.
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  Heat remaining ghee in a pan. Fry cashews and kishmish till golden brown. Pour this over the pongal and mix well.
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  Serve hot.

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Notes

• You could cook the rice and dal in water and add a cup of thick milk later while adding jaggery water.
• Drizzle some pure ghee over the finished pongal for more taste and flavour.
• Jaggery quantity can be adjusted as per your taste. 
• Use raw rice for better texture. 
• Moong dal has to be roasted for aroma.
• Use ghee liberally for best taste.
• A little dash of edible camphor can be added for taste.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servings | Calories: 566kcal | Carbohydrates: 95g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 42mg | Sodium: 221mg | Potassium: 114mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 70g | Vitamin A: 66IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 84mg | Iron: 1mg

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Sakkarai Pongal Recipe with Step by Step

1)Roast yellow moong dal till aromatic

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2)Keep roasting on a low flame till toasted

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3)Once it is toasted take it in a bowl and rinse well

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4)I rinsed dal and rice together

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5)Take them back in a pressure cooker. Add water

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6)Add milk

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7)Add some ghee

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8)Add a pinch of salt

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9)Cover and pressure cook for 3 whistle

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10)The rice and dal is cooked

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11)Mash the rice really well

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12)Take jaggery in a sauce pan. Add little water and cook till it melts. Once it is melted. Boil for 5 mins.

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13)Now strain this jaggery syrup into the cooked rice

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14)Mix well

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15)Now the jaggery is well mixed into the rice

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16)Now continue to cook this on low heat for at least 6 to 8 mins.

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17)Add little ghee at a time and keep mixing.

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18)cook on low heat

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19)Add more ghee and mix well

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20)Now the pongal has thickened

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21)Add in dry ginger powder

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22)Add little cardamom powder

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23)If you have edible camphor. Add a pinch of it.

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24)crush the edible camphor and add it in

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25)heat ghee in a pan

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26)Add cashews

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27)fry till golden brown

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28)Add kishmish

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29)pour it in

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30)mix well

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31)serve

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Pongal Celebration | How we celebrate pongal

 Hope you all are getting ready for celebrating pongal tomorrow. In our house we celebrate pongal very traditionally. Amma wake up and makes us to wake up so early to get ready for pongal. She will make pongal in the front of our house using a build up stone stove and using woods and dried leaves from coconut tree to lit up fire. We call it as “Veragaduppu”. 

We buy all kinds of country vegetables like elephant yam, cucumber, raw banana and many more and put it in front of god statues as “Prasadam”. sugarcanes are must for pongal. Then we paint the floor where we will do pongal with lots of rangolis and kolams. Amma has prepared everything right now and getting ready for pongal tomorrow. Amma make sweet pongal, ven pongal, medu vada, and raw banana chips. She also make sambar, and some kind of pongal kulambu to go with it. 

Pro Tips

• You could cook the rice and dal in water and add a cup of thick milk later while adding jaggery water.
• Drizzle some pure ghee over the finished pongal for more taste and flavour.
• Jaggery quantity can be adjusted as per your taste. 
• Use raw rice for better texture. 
• Moong dal has to be roasted for aroma.
• Use ghee liberally for best taste.
• A little dash of edible camphor can be added for taste.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is sweet pongal made of?

Sweet pongal is made with moong dal, raw rice, jaggery, ghee, cashews & raisins. Raw rice and moong dal is cooked and jaggery is added with ghee later finished with cashews and nuts.

In which state sweet pongal is famous?

sweet pongal is popular all over india specially made during pongal season. But it is most popular around south part of india.

Is sweet pongal healthy?

Sweet pongal is one of the healthy nutrition rich dish since it is loaded with moong dal, rice, ghee and jaggery. It is healthy and also rich in carb.

Is edible camphor essential in making sweet pongal?

Edible camphor add a divine taste to the pongal. You can skip adding it if you don't have.

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