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Sakkarai pongal recipe, Temple style sweet pongal recipe

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Sakkarai Pongal Recipe

Sakkarai pongal recipe – traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe.Traditionally sweet pongal is made with just jaggery rice and moong dal as main ingredients.

I have already posted a sweet pongal recipe with milk but saw this traditional temple style sakkarai pongal recipe with only jaggery from a chettinad book my athai gave me. Having tried this recipe many times now thought to share the recipe here.We call this sweet pongal as sakkarai pongal or chakkarai pongal in tamil.

I made only a small quantity so made it in pressure cooker but will surely update this post with steps of the traditional pot method later.
Sweet Pongal Recipe

We use this vengala paanai(brass pot seen below) to make pongal on the festival day. Though in our native we used to make it in veragu aduppu(firewood oven)……through the days we have changed to gas stove but use the traditional pot to make the pongal. Now I have to keep up my promise to update the stepwise pics for the traditional pot method….hopefully by next pongal 🙂 Now on to the recipe….

Sakkarai Pongal cooking in traditional pot

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Sakkarai pongal recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 

Sakkarai pongal recipe temple style sweet pongal without milk

Servings: 3
Author: Sharmilee J
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup raw rice
  • 1/4 cup moong dal
  • 3 cups water
  • 10 whole cashews broken
  • 1 tbsp raisins
  • 2 nos cardamom
  • 1 tiny pinch edible camphor
  • 2 tbsp + 2 tsp ghee
For jaggery syrup:
  • 3/4 cup heaped jaggery
  • 1/3 cup water
Instructions

  1. Add jaggery and water to a pan, boil it dissolves completely.Set aside.

  2. Crush cardamom and edible camphor together and set aside.Dry roast moong dal until golden.

  3. Add it to rice, rinse well drain and add it to pressure cooker.Add water and pressure cook for 5 whistles in low medium flame.Let the pressure release by itself.

  4. Once pressure releases, open and mash it well.Strain and add jaggery syrup.

  5. Mix well and let it boil in sim to thicken.

  6. Add cardamom powder,mix well then add ghee.Mix well and cook in low flame.

  7. Heat ghee in a pan - add cashews first fry until golden then add raisins and let it bubble up.Fry until golden brown.Add it to pongal, mix well.Switch off.

  8. Serve hot with ghee drizzled.

Recipe Notes
  • I used paagu velam to get the dark brown color. You can use normal jaggery too.
  • Pressure cooking time of rice depends on the variety of rice so adjust accordingly.New rice needs little lesser water whereas old rice requires more.
  • Pongal gets thicker in consistency after cooling down so switch off accordingly. If it get dry, while serving add little ghee and milk.

Sakkarai pongal recipe video

Method:

  1. Add jaggery and water to a pan, boil it dissolves completely.Set aside.Sakkarai Pongal Recipe - Step1
  2. Crush cardamom and edible camphor together and set aside.Dry roast moong dal until golden.Sakkarai Pongal Recipe - Step2
  3. Add it to rice, rinse well drain and add it to pressure cooker.Add water and pressure cook for 5 whistles in low medium flame.Let the pressure release by itself.Sakkarai Pongal Recipe - Step3
  4. Once pressure releases, open and mash it well.Strain and add jaggery syrup.Sakkarai Pongal Recipe - Step4
  5. Mix well and let it boil in sim to thicken.Sweet Pongal Recipe - Step5
  6. Add cardamom powder,mix well then add ghee.Mix well and cook in low flame.Sweet Pongal Recipe - Step5
  7. Heat ghee in a pan – add cashews first fry until golden then add raisins and let it bubble up.Fry until golden brown.Add it to pongal, mix well.Switch off.Sweet Pongal Recipe - Step5

Serve hot with ghee drizzled.
Chakkarai Pongal Recipe

Drizzle ghee while serving! Serve hot!


Sakkarai Pongal - Sweet Pongal Recipe


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  4. Nupur says

    Did you read my mind last night Sharmi ??? I was actually thinking to look for an Authentic Pongal recipe. I loved it during my visit to Bangalore last year and I was looking for an opportunity to cook it myself.. Bookmarked !!

    P.S. thanks for posting it just on time 😉

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  18. Vaishnavi says

    Mittu's bangle hand pic with pongal is just awesome! Sharmi since its mango season, please try n post aam paana…it will be nice addition to ur space. We can also learn from u

    Reply

  42. Deepa Kaliraj says

    Thanks sharmi… Really we waited for your pongal recipe… It's awesome

    Sharmi, again we're not able to search. It's showing no results. Plz help us to search our favorite recipes

    Reply

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