Sweet Pongal

This is the dish we prepare on Pongal, like prasad. Traditionally its cooked in clay pots infront of the houser, by creating kind of camp fire burner, on the day of Pongal. But I prepared it in cooker on an Induction cooktop on my first Pongal after marriage as we couldnt go home to celebrate it with my family.

I cooked it for the first time as well but I will tell you how I did and ofcourse it came out so tasty.

Ingredients:
*Raw rice (unboiled rice) - 2 cups
*Moong dal - 1 cup
*Jaggery - powdered (quantity - according to your preference of sweetness)
*ghee
*Cashew nuts (kaju), badam, elaichi and dry grapes.

Steps:
@ Pressure cook the rice and dal with water
@ Meanwhile powder the jaggery and keep all ingredients ready
@ once the rice is done, let the cook cool down and prepare the so called tadka
@ Tadka - heat ghee and slightly roast kaju, badam, dry grapes and powdered elaichi. Please dont over heat it and burn them. Have to be careful.
@ Now open the cooker lid, add the powdered jaggery first and mix well.
@ The jaggery with mix and melt well in the heat.
@ Immediately add the tadka to rice and mix again.

Sweet Pongal is ready to serve!