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Thinai sakkarai pongal | Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal-How to make-Stepwise pictures & Video
By Guna selvi SridherCuisine Style: Ancient Tamil Nadu | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Type: Breakfast, Pongal festival, Weight loss & Easy diabetic recipes
Ingredients
- Thinai rice (Foxtail Millet) – 1 cup
- Jaggery – 3/4 to 1 cup
- Moong dal – ¼ cup
- Camphor (Pachai Karpooram) – less than peppercorn size
- Cardamom powder – ½ tbsp
- Cashew nuts – 5 to 6 [Ghee Fried]
- Ghee – 3 tbsp
- Salt – a pinch
- Water – 2 cups
Preparation
- Wash thinai rice and moong dal.
- Add 2 cups of water, ghee and salt then pressure cook it (aprx 4 whistles).
- Heat jaggery with 1/2 cup water, let it melt for 3 min then drain to avoid impurities.
- Add jaggery syrup to the thinai mixture, let it boil for 5 min.
- Add Cardamom powder, ghee and camphor.
- Garnish with cashew nut and serve hot.
How to make Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal video
How To Make Thinai sakkarai pongal- Stepwise Pictures [Pressure cooker method]
Thinai arisi (1)
Washed moong dal(2)
Washed thinai and moong dal mixture (3)
Adding ghee before cooking (4)
Pinch of salt before cooking (5) 
Pour water (6)
Mix well all ingredients (7)
Cover lid, cook it for 4 whistles (8)
Cooked thinai rice, Moong Dal mixture (9)
Melting jaggery (10)
Melted jaggery syrup (11)
Sugar and cardamom pods (12)
Manually ground cardamom powder (13) 
Adding jaggery syrup to cooked thinai rice (14) 
Jaggery syrup mixed mixture (15) 
Adding cardamom powder (16) 
Adding ghee (17) 
Thinai Sakkarai Pongal is ready (18) 
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