Thursday, February 21, 2019

Pongala Payasam - Sweet rice pudding

Its basic ingredients are rice, jaggery and ghee. This has an unique taste as we add grated coconut, some chopped bananas, and finally for flavour cardamom powder.

Ingredients

Kerala matta rice(brown rice) or raw rice - 1 cup
Jaggery - 3 balls (grated)
Ghee - 1 cup(be generous adding ghee)
Grated coconut - 1 cup ( i used coconut flakes)
Banana - 3-4 sliced into small rounds
Cardamom pods/powder
Water to cook rice.



Soak rice , boil water in a big pot/pan, add rice. When rice is almost cooked add jaggery , mix well and cook for 5 minutes. Keep stirring and add ghee spoon after  spoon until the payasam  gets thickened. Lastly add sliced bananas, coconut and cardamom pods or powder mix well. Sweet rice pudding(Pongala payasam) is ready.

This is very similar to Chakkara Pongal/Sweet Pongal!

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