Sakkarai pongal (sweet pongal)

This is a yumm comfort food, one which takes me down memory lane to Amma's food. It was a happy moment when my sonny said its one of his favourites and asked to make it sometime.
This recipe is from my mother. Very simple. No frills.

Ingredients

Raw rice 1 cup

Crushed jaggery 1 and half cup

Ghee half cup

Cashews and raisins, cardamom powder

Milk 2 cups

payatham paruppu (moong dal) 1.4 cup

Method

• Roast rice and payatham parupu withour oil in a kadai till it turns slightly brown.

• Cool, wash well and drain water well.

• Add 5 cups of water to milk in a thick bottemed vessel. Add the rice and cook.

• Mix 1 cup of water in jaggery and heat till it dissolves.

• When it is almost cooked add the jaggery after straining for mud.

• Add the ghee and seasoning and cook till it becomes thick.

Note
water can taken less increasing the milk