Chakkera Pongali
This is my second attempt to attain perfection and it came out well.I am more than happy and eager to post the recipe.My mother makes it very well but never allowed me to enter the kitchen while she was cooking cos she wanted to avoid double work!!Though i didn’t have dry coconut this time,i managed with grated coconut.Still,i miss the ghee smeared coconut pieces:-( Anyways,the sweet came out more than expected and i am satisfied with what i made:)Here’s the recipe……It can be slightly liquidy when you make but become thicker after some time.
Ingredients:
Rice – 1Cup
Moong Dal/Pesara pappu – ½ cup
Jaggery powder/Bellam turumu -1Cup(It can be replaced with 1½ cups Sugar)
Milk – 2 Cups
Water – 1 Cup
Grated coconut/kobbari turumu – 1/4th Cup
Dry coconut pieces/Endu kobbari mukkalu -1/3rd cup
Cashews & Kismis – 2tbsp each
Cardomom powder/Elaichi powder – 1 tsp
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Procedure:
Soak Moong dal in water for 15 mins.Now take a thick bottomed pan,add rice(washed thoroughly) and moong dal,milk and water and bring to boil on a very low flame.Keep stirring without allowing it to burn at the bottom.After it is 3/4th done,Add Grated coconut,Jaggery or Sugar and keep stirring until it dissolves completely.Add Cardomom powder at this point.Now take a small pan,add ghee and when its hot,add dry coconut,cashews and kismis and fry them.Remove it from fire and pour it into the rice mixture.Mix it thoroughly and serve it hot!!
The whole procedure takes nearly 1 hour.It serves 5 people.
