Sakarai Pongal

This is a traditional, festive sweet in India, one of my favorite sweet.

Ingredients:

• Raw White Rice (Pachaarusi) - 1 cup
• Cane Sugar - 1 cup or 1 1/2 as per your requirement
• Ghee - 6 teaspoons
• Cardamon powder - 1 teaspoon
• Milk - 100 ml
• Cashews - 10
• Sultanas - 15
  

Method:

• Cook the rice with 3 cups of water. The rice should be cooked well so that you can mash it with a potato masher.
• Melt the cane sugar in 1/4 cup of water, filter the melted sugar syrup and add it to the cooked rice and mix.
• Keep the rice and sugar mixture in medium heat and add warm milk, cardamon powder and 4 teaspoons of ghee and mix all together.
• Fry cashews and sultanas and add it to the Pongal.
• Serve Sakarai Pongal warm.