Kovil Sakkarai Pongal | Sweet Pongal Recipe

This Kovil Sakkarai Pongal / Sweet Pongal Recipe is my first post in https://asmallbite.com and hence thought of posting this traditional sweet recipe. As an amateur in the blogging world, I have tried to provide this simple recipe with step-wise pictures and hope this will be useful to all. Please share your valuable comments in this blog so that it will be helpful to improve my blog.

Check my other Pongal Recipes
1. Chakkara / Sakkarai Pongal
2. Rava / Sooji Khara Pongal
3. Paal / Milk Pongal
4. Pongal / 7 Kari Kootu

Kovil Sakkarai Pongal

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Kovil Sakkarai Pongal | Sweet Pongal Recipe

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

35 mins

Total Time

45 mins

 

This Kovil Sakkarai Pongal / Sweet Pongal Recipe is my first post in https://asmallbite.com and hence thought of posting this traditional sweet recipe.

Course: Festival Recipes, Sweet

Cuisine: South Indian

Keyword: Kovil sakkarai Pongal Recipe, Sweet Pongal Recipe

Servings: 3 People

Author: Priya Santhamohan

Ingredients

• 1/2 Cup Raw Rice
• 3 to 4 tbsp Moong Dal
• 1/2 Cup Jaggery
• 2 Elachi
• 1 Cloves
• 1 Pinch Nutmeg Powder
• 5 to 6 Cashew / Raisins (Each)
• 1 Pinch Edible Camphor (Optional)
• Few Strands Saffron (Optional)
• Salt (A small pinch)
• 2.5 Cup Water
• 3 to 4 tbsp Ghee Link for ghee

Instructions

1. Heat ½ tsp of ghee, fry cashews, raisins, cloves and elachi. Switch off flame, add nutmeg powder and give a quick stir. Keep by side.

2. In the same kadai, roast moong dal till golden brown. Wash rice and pressure cook dal and rice with water and salt for 5 whistles.

3. Mash it well. In a kadai pour little water and add powder jaggery. Heat and melt it.

4. Strain through a filter and pour over the mashed rice. Cook the pongal in medium flame for 5 minutes. Add ghee at regular intervals. Finally add fried cashews, raisins, cloves, elaichi and saffron soaked in little warm milk.

   Tasty pongal is ready, serve hot with ghee drizzled on top.

Method

1. Heat ½ tsp of ghee, fry cashews, raisins, cloves and elachi. Switch off flame, add nutmeg powder and give a quick stir. Keep by side.

2. In the same kadai, roast moong dal till golden brown. Wash rice and pressure cook dal and rice with water and salt for 5 whistles.

3. Mash it well. In a kadai pour little water and add powder jaggery. Heat and melt it.

4. Strain through a filter and pour over the mashed rice. Cook the pongal in medium flame for 5 minutes. Add ghee at regular intervals. Finally add fried cashews, raisins, cloves, elaichi and saffron soaked in little warm milk.

Tasty Kovil Sakkarai pongal is ready, serve hot with ghee drizzled on top.

 

Sweet Pongal Recipe

1. Don’t add edible camphor or nutmeg powder more than mentioned, it gives bitterness to the Sweet pongal recipe.
2. Use ‘Paagu Vellam’ to get dark colour kovil sakkarai pongal
3. Use good quality ghee for nice flavour. Also add little more ghee than mentioned to get soft and rich pongal.
4. Add little warm milk if the pongal is dry.
5. Old rice require more water, new rice need little less water, so add water accordingly.

Kovil Sakkarai Pongal Recipe