Kalkandu Pongal / Rock Sugar Pongal is a delicious dessert
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Total Time30 minutesmins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 2
Ingredients
3TablespoonMoong Dal
½CupRaw Rice
⅓CupRock Sugar / Rock Candy / Kalkandu
2TablespoonGhee
15Cashews
1.5CupMilk
1.5CupWater
4Cardamom
Instructions
Wash and soak raw rice in water for 10 minutes. Roast moong dal until nice aroma comes out.
Add in the soaked Raw Rice into the roasted moong dal into a pressure cooker. Add in half cup of milk and 1.5 cup of water.
Pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame. Switch off the flame and let the pressure cooker release pressure on its own. Open the pressure Cooker. Mix with a ladle. Add in the remaining milk. mix well and start heating again.
Make the Rock sugar into powdered sugar in a blender. Add the powdered sugar into the pongal.
After adding sugar the pongal gets watery. Add in cardamom. Keep cooking until all the moisture disappears and we get a thick pongal consistency.
Top up with 1 tablespoon of ghee. Roast the cashews in the remaining ghee and add them into the pongal.
Finally add some rocksugar and mix them once. Delicious and tasty Kalkandu pongal is now ready to serve.
Notes
Garnishing with Rock Candy or Rock Sugar is completely optional, My little one liked it so i have used it.
While roasting moong dal make sure not to burn it.
Soaking raw rice in water for 10 minutes is to make it soft.
Pressure cook in a bigger pressure cooker so that it has enough space for the milk to boil.
Adding cardamom powder is better then adding cardamom. I did not have cardamom powder so i had added cardamom and removed it at the end after the flavour was infused.