Ingredients

• 2 cups - vermicelli
• 1 cup - green gram dal
• 3 cups - sugar
• 1/2 cup - ghee
• 4 - cardamoms
• few cashews and raisins

How to Make Semiya pongal

• Fry cashewnuts and raisins in ghee and keep it aside.
• In the same pan, fry semiya and put it aside.
• Fry green gram dal using little ghee. Then add water and cook it. Keep it aside.
• Boil 4 cups of water, add semiya to it and cook.
• Add sugar, cooked green gram dal, remaining ghee and cook for 5 mins on medium heat.
• Remove from the stove, add fried cashews, raisins and crushed cardamoms.