SweetPongal

SweetPongal:

A perfect lunch should have atleast one sweet (diabetes patient try the same with  sugar free ingredient).

Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup
• Channa Dhal - 1 handful
• Jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Cardmom Powder - 1 tsp
• Dry grapes / kismis - 1 handful (quantity can vary as per your taste)
• Cashewnuts - 5 to 6
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Poppy Seeds - 2 tsp
• Coconut - 1/2

Method:

Sweet Pongal/Chakra Pongal

1. Cook rice and channa dhal (kadale bele) for 4 whistles
2. Add 1 tsp ghee into a kadai, heat them fry cashewnuts and dry grapes, keep them aside
3. Add remaining ghee and heat them, put poppy seeds, cardmom powder, coconut and fry for sometime
4. Add the cooked rice and dhal and fry for some more time, so that all the ingredients get mixed.
5. Add jaggery in the end and leave it for sometime, let them get mixed well
6. Serve hot.

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