Serving:2 | Type: Special Sweet Rice

Ingredients:

Seasoning:

Method:

1. Wash rice and dhal together keep it in a vessel.
2. Take a pressure cooker with water and keep the vessel inside.
3. Add milk and water to the rice and dhal.
4. Cook for 3 whistle, then let it simmer for 10 minutes and turn off the stove.
5. Cool down the cooker then open it and mash the rice and dhal nicely.
6. Take the heavy bottom vessel add brown sugar and ¼ cup of water let it boil for 5 minutes. This syrup does not need any string consistency.
7. Once the brown sugar has melting into the water add the cooked rice and dhal into the brown sugar syrup and cook until it gets thick.
8. Take another pan heat with ghee add cashew nut, raisins let it fry then add it into the rice.
9. Then add coconut, cardamom powder, pachai  kalpooram and saffron mix it well.
10. Serve it hot.

Note:

1. Instead of brown sugar you can use jaggery  (vellam).
2. Chakkarai pongal is traditional made with jaggery.
3. If you use jaggery, after melting the jaggery in water, make sure to strain the syrup to get rid off impurities which might be in the jaggery.