Akkaravadisal

Ingredients

• • New rice - 1 cup
• • Milk - 10 cups
• • Cardamom powder - ¼ teaspoon
• • Jaggery (powdered) - ¼ cup
• • Ghee - 3 tablespoons
• • Cashew nuts - 2 tablespoons
• • Raisins - 1 tablespoon

Method

• 1. Prepare pongal as mentioned in the previous recipe.
• 2. Cook green gram dal separately in enough water till soft.
• 3. Add to pongal when it is three fourth cooked.
• 4. When the rice is cooked and pongal is thick, add jaggery little by little and stir till completely dissolved.
• 5. Remove from fire.
• 6. Heat ghee separately and fry cashew nuts and raisins.
• 7. Pour over pongal with cardamom powder.
• 8. Mix well and serve hot.

Note

• • Fry whole cardamom in little ghee till good smell comes.
• • Cool and powder finely. Cardamom powder prepared this way gives more flavour to the dish.