Pongal festival is celebrated as thanksgiving to Sun and farmers .It's also called harvest festival in our region and the celebrations go on to four days.
We prepare sweet pongal in mud pot during pongal festivals and pongal is one of the main dish in all our auspicious occasions.
So the traditional sweet recipe preparation is here:
Ingredients
½ cup rice

1/3 to ½ cup moong dal

½ cup grated jagery

1/8 tsp. green cardamom powder

2 to 3 tbsp. Ghee

1 tbsp. raisins

1 to 2 tbsp Cashews.
Preparation :
Wash rice and dal.Add moong dal to a pressure cooker and roast it till the dal turns fragrant.

Add rice and Pour 2 ¼ cups of water. Cook till soft either in the pressure cooker for 2 whistles or in the pot.
In another pan, pour ¼ cup water to grated jaggery. On a low flame stir and melt it. Keep this aside.
When the pressure from the cooker is down, remove the lid and mash the rice.
Filter jaggery syrup to the cooked rice dal.

Add green cardamom powder.
Mix and cook on a medium flame till the jaggery syrup blends well with rice. It should begin to bubble up well.
Heat a pan with ghee,add cashews, fry till golden, off the stove and add raisins. Mix this with the rice.
Chakkara / sweet pongal is ready.
Not only pongal , Traditionally we offer Sun God along with Freshly grown seasonal vegetables,sugar cane,legumes , spices and pulses , also rice , sambar , potato fry , mixed veg kootu , pickles, vada, mango pachidi, rasam,; sago kheer, pappad in banana leaf.
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