Ingredients

• Rice - 1 cup
• Green gram dal - 1 cup (not the whole one but the broken one)
• Jaggery - 1 to 1.5 cup (according to your taste)
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Cashew (broken), raisin - 1 tbsp each

How to Make Simple Chakkara Pongal

• Cook rice and dal together till they are well done.
• Put jaggery in a kadai with 2 tbsp of water and let it melt.
• After it melts, you can filter the liquid using a fine sieve if needed.
• Add rice and dal mixture to the jaggery and cook stirring continuously.
• Add ghee little by little and cook till the mixture thickens to be of the consistency of khichdi.
• Take it off the heat.
• Fry cashew and raisins in a little ghee and add to the pongal.
• Mix well and serve hot or cold.