Aval Inipu Pongal
Aval Inipu Pongal is an instant easy sweet pongal made with flattended rice, moong dal, jaggery and milk. How to cook Aval Inipu Pongal is described in this post wiht step by step pictures.
Servings2
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup aval / flattened rice / poha
- 2.5 tablespoon moong dal
- 1/8 cup milk
- 1/2 cup jaggery
- 1/2 cup water
- a small pinch cardamom powder
- a tiny pinch edible camphor
- 2 tablespoon ghee
- 10 nos cashews broken
- 15 nos raisins
Instructions
- Dissolve jaggery in water, use hot water to dissolve easily. Then heat it up until for the remaining lumps to get dissolved, let it come to a rolling boil.
- Switch off and strain to remove impurities. Then add edible camphor(a very tiny pinch not more than that), cardamom, set aside.
- Roast cashews and raisins in ghee till golden brown, set aside. Dry roast moong dal till golden brown and cook it with enough water till mushy, switch off. Mash it up well with a ladle.
- Add the prepared jaggery syrup to the mashed dal, mash it well so that the dal blends well with the syrup…Heat it up.
- Meanwhile rinse poha and soak it in water for 3mins.Once poha is soft, add it to the jaggery syrup along with coconut. Let it boil for 2mins.
- Stir well and mash the poha well so that it blends well with the jaggery syrup. Then add milk and keep stirring till it reaches a semi thick consistency.
- Add ghee, and roasted cashews raisins(I reserved the remaining for garnish), switch off.
- Serve Aval Inipu Pongal hot with ghee drizzled and remaining cashews and raisins.
Notes
- I cooked dal in the same pan I roasted and it took some time to get cooked meanwhile I was grating jaggery. Instead you can even pressure cook it for 3 whistles with enough water.
- Pongal gets thicker in consistency after cooling down so switch off accordingly.
If it gets dry, while serving add little ghee and milk. - I used paagu velam to get the dark brown color and also for the taste.You can use normal round jaggery too.
- You can also use saffron if you like the flavour.
- Drizzle ghee and garnish with cashews,raisins while serving, tastes yumm!!
Nutrition Facts
Aval Inipu Pongal
Amount Per Serving (200 g)
Calories 636
Calories from Fat 162
% Daily Value*
Fat 18g28%
Saturated Fat 10g63%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 6g
Cholesterol 40mg13%
Sodium 20mg1%
Potassium 171mg5%
Carbohydrates 107g36%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 52g58%
Protein 10g20%
Vitamin A 61IU1%
Vitamin C 0.4mg0%
Calcium 62mg6%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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