Red rice sweet pongal | Sigappu arisi sakkarai pongal-How to make with step by step photos

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, south india | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 5 | Type: Breakfast, Pongal festival special recipe

Ingredients

• Broken Red Rice– 1 cup
• Yellow moong dal – ¼ cup
• Jaggery – ½ cup [grated]
• Cashew nuts – 7
• Raisins - 6
• Cardamom powder- ½ tbsp
• Ghee – 4 tbsp
• Water as needed

Method

• Wash red rice & moong dal. Then drain water & put it in a pressure cooker with 2 ½ cups of water and ghee, cook for 4 whistles.
• Heat pan & melt jaggery with 4 tbsp of water.
• Heat pan with ghee then roast cashews & raisins.
• Add melted jaggery, ghee and cardamom powder to the cooked rice mixture & mix well.
• Finally add cashews & raisins then serve hot.

How to make Red rice sweet pongal - Stepwise pictures

Pressure cook broken red rice, & moong dal with 1 tbsp of ghee for 4 whistles

Heat ghee in a pan put raisins & cashews roast

Roasted raisins cashews, cut off heat

Melt jaggery

Add melted jaggery, raisins & cashews

Add cardamom powder

Finally add ghee

Sigappu arisi sakkarai pongal is ready