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Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Over the last few decades I've spent a number of hours cooking for my family of 5. My husband is a retired bank Manager and my 3 boys are IIT graduates. Now I'm sharing my knowledge and thoughts to the world through this site. Whether you are a busy mom or a student learning to cook, you will find this blog helpful for cooking simple and easy to make food for yourself and the whole family. Hope you enjoy my recipe blog! I also love listening to devotional songs. Please browse through my devotional blogs to know more about them. I am always looking for ways to improve my blogs. Please leave your comments. If you like to see recipe of any particular dish or lyrics of a devotional song, please also let me know. Thanks for reading my blog.

Sunday 13 March 2011

Sweet Pongal Recipe



Ingrediants
  • Rice                                       2 cup
  • Green gram dal                1 cup
  •  coconut pieces(small) 1 cup 
  •  sugar                                   1 ½ (one and half) 
  • Water                                   7 cups
  •  Ghee                                   4 tbsp                                       
  • Cashewnuts                     10
  • Raisins                                10
  • 5  Cardamoms (powdered)

Preparation

  1. Rost   dal in a thick bottom cooking vessel, till its colour change into little brown. keep it aside.
  2.  Take ghee in the same vessel , fry cashew nuts , raisins and coconut pieces one after one.
  3.  wash rice.
  4. Take water in pressure cooker, add washed rice dal and coconut pieces and cook for 3 whistes.
  5. Remove the lid. Add sugar and mix well.
  6. Keep it on the stove again, cook till the excess water in the  pongal evoparates. Add cardamoms powder,cashew nuts and raisins. Mix well

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