Sarkari Pongal

 Ingredients:

• 1 glass of Raw rice
• ½ glass of Green gram
• 1 hand full of Jaggery
• 5 tsp of Ghee
• 10 Cashews
• 10 Dry grapes
• Salt

First soak the rice and green gram together for 30 minutes. Then place the vessel on the stove and pour nearly 3 glass of water and allow it to boil. After that, put the rice and green gram in the boiled water. Put a bit of salt. Overcook it. It should be watery. So that it will become little bit thick after getting cooled.

In between place another vessel on the stove and pour 1 glass of water. In this add the sliced jaggery. Allow it to boil. Now filter this and pour in the rice mix. Mix it well, so that the sweetness will spread.

Now place a small vessel on the stove and pour the ghee. Allow it to boil. First add the broken cashews. It should become little brown. Now add the dry grapes. This will bulge soon. Now pour it in the rice mix. Mix well.

Now your Sarkari Pongal is ready….

Cashews will take time to become brown, but grapes will bulge immediately. That’s why we should use cashews first and then grapes.

We have to use much amount of sugar to give sweetness. But, little bit of jaggery will give much sweetness. That’s why I used jaggery…