Chakra Pongal (Sweet Pongal)

Ingredients:

Rice - 1/2 cup cup
Moong Dal - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cups
Sugar or Jaggery(Bellam) - 1 cups
Ghee - 3 tbs
Raisins - 10
Cashew nuts - 6
Cardamom (Elachi)-5 nos
milk-2 cups

How to make Sweet Pongal:

1.In another dry deep pot, toast the rice grains and the mung dal till they turn brown in color.Add water and milk slowly and cook on low heat till rice and dal are cooked. Now add sugar and cardamom powder.Cook till sugar dissloves. Keep stirring so that the sugar does not stick to the bottom. Add the remaning ghee. More sugar or ghee can be added according to your taste.

2.Heat ghee in a small pan. Add raisins and chopped cashews. Mix until cashews turn lightly brown.

3.Add powdered cardamom and mix well. Decorate with fried raisins and cashews.

Serve Hot.