Pineapple Rawa Pongal

Ingredients

• • Bombay rawa - 1 cup
• • Green gram dal - ¼ cup
• • Sugar - 1 cup
• • Pineapple slices (finely chopped) - 3
• • Pineapple syrups - ½ cup
• • Lemon yellow colour (food colour) - 2 pinches
• • Coconut milk - 2 cups
• • Ghee - 2 tablespoons
• • Pistachios (finely cut) - as required
• • Saffron (soaked in little warm milk) - as required

Method

• 1. Fry rawa using one teaspoon of ghee, until light golden.
• 2. Dry roast green gram dal separately. Add 1 cup of water to the dal and cook until it splits.
• 3. Heat coconut milk add roasted rawa and mix gently.
• 4. Cover and cook under low flame until rawa gets cooked.
• 5. Heat sugar and pineapple syrup together until sugar melts.
• 6. Mix it with cooked dal.
• 7. Add yellow colour, finely chopped pineapple pieces and mix well.
• 8. When rawa is cooked properly add this pineapple mixed sugar syrup. Allow to cook for few more minutes in low flame.
• 9. Heat remaining ghee, fry pistachio and mix with pongal. Add soaked saffron to the pongal, and mix well.
• 10. Serve and enjoy!