Ingredients

• 2 cups - Jasmine Rice
• 1/2 cup Moong Dal
• 1 litre Milk
• 1/2 cup Ghee
• 3 cups Jaggery (or Brown Sugar)
• Saffron
• 1/4 tsp Elaichi Powder
• 1/2 cup broken Cashewnuts and Raisins

How to Make Sweet Pongal (Chakara Pongal)

• Fry the rice and moong dal in a pan until the moong dal colour starts to change.
• Boil milk in the heavy bottom vessel.
• When the milk has boiled fully, add the rice and moong dal. Keep the fire in medium flame and let it cook.
• Keep adding ghee to this mixture and also keep stirring.
• When the rice and moong dal mixture is cooked, add a few strands of saffron, elaichi powder and jaggery. Keep stirring till all the jaggery has dissolved.
• Fry the cashewnuts and raisins in ghee and mix it with sweet pongal.