Sweet pongal recipe | sakkarai pongal recipe | chakkara pongal recipe

How to make sweet pongal recipe ?

Sweet pongal recipe also known as sakkarai pongal recipe | chakkara pongal recipe is used to make on festival occasions. This is my favorite pongal recipe. I have already shared how to make ven pongal recipe.  Learn how to prepare sweet pongal recipe with simple steps.

Ingredients for sweet pongal recipe:

• Raw rice (pacharisi) – 1 cup
• Jaggery (crushed) – 1 cup
• Raisins – 15 grams
• Cashew nuts – 15 grams
• Ghee – 5 spoons
• Cardamom – 3 no’s
• Honey – 1 spoon
• Water to boil rice

Steps to cook Sweet pongal recipe:

1. First wash the raw rice in water twice, then add water and soak for 10 minutes.
2. Switch on the stove place a pan and add 2 cups of water then allow it to boil.
3. When water boiling add raw rice then close the lid and allow it to cook up to 10 minutes. (After 5 minutes gap add cardamom powder and mix well)
4. Now check the rice whether it is cooked or not.
5. Next add crushed jaggery and mix well. then cook in a low flame until the jaggery merged well with rice. (Add 2 spoons ghee in this mixture to give good aroma and non sticky)
6. At this stage take a pan now add three spoons ghee when it is heated add raisins and cashew then fry until it will become golden colour.
7. Now add the fried cashews, raisins and 1 spoon honey in Chakkara pongal and mix well.
8. Now simple and delicious traditional sweet pongal recipe is ready to serve.

Tips:

• In this recipe I didn’t fry the rice and not adding moong dal.
• According to your taste you can fry the moong dal and raw rice and prepare this Chakkarai pongal. (It gives another sweet taste of pongal)
• different style of sweet pongal recipe methods available like kovil sakkarai pongal recipe, sakkarai pongal brahmin recipe style (sakkarai pongal recipe iyengar) and sweet pongal recipe with sugar. This is a Kongu nadu  style simple Chakkarai pongal recipe.
• There are two type’s jaggeries available in stores, one in dark brown colour and another in light brown colour.
• Dark colour jaggery gives thick colour but less amount of sweet taste, light colour jaggery gives sweeter and less colour of pongal so according to this take jaggery level correctly.
• Here I put jaggery raw, u can add filtered jaggery.
• few people prepare sweet pongal recipe with jaggery and milk
• More vegetarian recipes from Famous Indian recipes = > Curd Rice recipe | Thiruvathirai kali recipe | Aval upma recipe | Rava kichadi recipe