Ingredients
Samai Arisi (Little Millet) -300gm
Split green gram- 100gm
Jaggery - 650gm
Milk -100ml
Cardamom crushed- 2gm
Ghee- 75gm
Cashew Nuts- 25 gms
Raisin- 25gms
Water- 600 ml
Salt - a pinch
Method:
- Wash millet and lentil together keep for soaking 20 minutes and drain the water keep in bowl
- Take a jaggery and make a syrup keep side
- Boil the dal in presser cooker keep side
- Take clay pot or any thick bottom vessel ass water and milk and little millet and dal mixture let allow to boil in slow fire
- Once cooked well add jaggery fold well with rice stir slowlely with fold all side cook few minutes in slow temperature
- Add ghee and fold slowlely. add cardamom powder. little coconut
- Add ghee fried cashewnut and raisins also ghee fried coconut on Pongal for garnishes
Note: Garnish with ghee fried cashewnut and raisins, coconut serve traditionally with clay pot or banana leaf
Attribution – ( Gopalsamy S, Speciality Chef, Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd.)