Ingredients

• 1 cup - raw rice
• 1/2 cup - moong dal
• 1.75 cups - sugar candy (Kalkandu)
• 8 - cardamom pods
• 15 - cashew nuts
• 15 - raisins
• 4 tbsp - ghee
• 2.75 cups - water

How to Make Kalkandu bhath

• Heat a tbsp of ghee in a pan.
• Roast the moong dal in the ghee.
• Pressure cook the raw rice along with the roasted moong dal with 2 cups of water up to 4 whistles.
• Heat a heavy bottomed pan and add kalkandu (sugar candy).
• Add 3/4 cup water so that the sugar candy dissolves.
• Stir the sugar syrup continuously until the syrup turns sticky.
• Now add the rice and dal mixture.
• On a low flame, stir the mixture evenly to blend with the sugar candy syrup.
• Add 2 tbsps ghee slowly and keep stirring for at least 4-5 mins.
• Fry cashews in a tbsp of ghee and add to the dal mixture with powdered cardamom and raisins.
• Serve hot.
• Recipe & image courtesy: www.subbuskitchen.com