Sweet pongal/Jaggary pongal/Bellam pongali

This a traditional and tastey sweet, which every one would like to prepare at home. And the specialty of this is, it's the most preferd offering to the God.

Ingredients:

Rice - 1cup

moong dal/pesera pappu - 1/2cup

jaggary - 1 cup

milk - 1cup

ghee - 4tbsp

cashew nuts - 10

elachi powder- 1/4 tbsp

water - 5cups

Preparation:

1.Wash rice and moong dal and keep it aside

2.Start boiling 3 cups of water in a cooking vessel.

3.After it boild add teh rice and moog dal to it and let it cook, keep stirng it in the middle.And keep adding some more water , to avoid rice from burning.

4.In a frying pan, fry caswew nuts in ghee and keep it aside

5.add elchi powder to the cooking rice

6.After rice cooked a bit smooth or 3/4 cooked well now add crushed jaggry to it

7.let it cook till teh jagry metls

8.Now add milk to it and let it cook for more 5min

9.Now add the fried cashew nuts & ghee to the cooking rice.If you add more ghee , it will increase the taste.

10.Let it cook till rice become very smooth.

11.After rice become smoth , now remove from the flame.

Your sweet pongal is ready now.

Carrot Halwa

Carrot Halwa



My First post in the blog, i would like to start it with a sweet .. which we all like to taste all times.. That is Carrot halwa..

Ingrediants :

1. carrots - 4

2. sugar - 2 cups

3. Elachi/yalukalu - 2

4. Milk - 1 cup or less (optional)

5. casew nuts/jeedipappu - little

6. Ghee for taste - 4 tbsp

Preparation :

1. Peel the carrots and grate them .

2. Now take a pan , put the ghee and let it get hot

3. Fry the cashew nuts in the ghee , till they get little brown color.

4.Take out the Cashew nuts and keep it aside

5.Now in the same pan or in a different pan, start frying the grated carrot.

6.keep frying untill it looses it's raw smell..u can see the carrot a bit dry.

7.Now add the sugar , ( you can add more if you want ), and keep stirring it
8.Now add milk depending upon the thick ness you want.Let it cook for 5min.Millk is for extra taste

9.Now add the Elachi powder and cashwe nuts , ane let it cook for 5min.
Mouthwatering carrot halwa is ready.

It will be tasty even when it is hot and when it is cool also.You can even eat this with ice cream,gulab jam.