Sarkarai Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal / Chakkara Pongal / Jaggery Rice, a sweet dish

• Take a pressure cooker.
• Add 2 cups of washed raw rice, ½ cup of slightly roasted split green gram and 4 cups of water.
• Pressure cook till the contents become soft.
• Remove the lid.
• Add ½ cup of ghee, 5 cups of grated jaggery and 100 ml of milk.
• Stir and cook under low flame so as to get the contents thick.
• Add a tsp of cardamom powder, 10 each of fried cashew nuts and fried raisins.
• Mix well and serve hot or cold.

Glossary:
Raw rice – Colam rice / Pacharisi / Kachcha chaval
Split green gram – Pasipparuppu / Moong dal wash
Jaggery – Vellam / Gud
Cardamom – Elakkai / Elaichi
Cashew nut / Mundhiri paruppu / Khaju
Raisin - Kismis / Ular dhrakshai