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Sweet Pongal with coconut milk

Sweet pongal with coconut milk is simple and flavourful recipe. Perfect for any pooja, vrat day. Must try recipe
Cook Time20 minutes
Course: Dessert, festive foods, naivedyam, pongal, rice, vrat
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Sweet Pongal
Servings: 4
Author: Veena Theagarajan

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Raw rice
  • 2 tbsp moong dal
  • 1 tbsp Ghee or as you need
  • 1 tbsp Cashew nuts
  • 1 tsp raisin
  • 3/4 cup Coconut milk
  • 3/4 cup Jaggery (adjust to your sweet level)
  • 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
  • 1.5 cup water
  • pinch of salt

Instructions

  • Heat ghee and fry nut, raisin till it is brown and raisin puffed up. Take it out (including ghee)
  • In same pan roast Rice, Dal and pressure cook with pinch of salt and 1.5 cup of water till 3 whistle
  • Once you are able to open the lid and add jaggery, coconut milk , Cardamom powder. Cook till mixture get thicker
  • add fried nuts and required Ghee
  • Once done switch it off and enjoy!

Notes

Notes

  • You can replace Moong dal with Chana dal
  • Don't add more dal
  • you can replace 50% of Jaggery with raw sugar or regular sugar if you are not a big fan of Jaggery
  • My sis says sweet Pongal tastes good the next day
  • My aunt eats sweet pongal with Lemon pickle (I never tried)
 
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