Chekkara Pongali

A Special item to render to God. A rich food item. Heavy after taken as brunch or lunch, A whole sweet with different flavor.

Ingredients

Split greengram [Pesara pappu] - 1 cup

Rice - 2 cups

Sugar - 2 1/2 cups

Ghee - 1 cup approximately

Coconut - few fried coconut pieces or grated coconut

Cashews and raisins - few

Preparation

Pressure cook the dal and rice adding 6 cups of water. Make syrup of sugar adding little water. Add this syrup, and 3/4 cup of ghee to the cooked dal and rice mixture. Add the fried cashews, raisins and grated coconut or fried coconut pieces. Add crushed cardamon powder.