This receipe is posted as requested by brother-in-law, this is for you Bharath :-)
Akkaravadisal is a typical Iyengar receipe. People often think that sakara pongal are the same. Read more and you will find the difference :-)
Ingredients Required:
- Rice - 1 cup
- Whole Milk - 5 cups
- Moong dhal or greem gram dhal - 1/4 cup
- Chana Dhal - 1 tbsp
- 1 cup grated jaggery or you can use Sugar or Kalkandu
- Ghee - 1/2 cup (Yes this is the full fat version :-)
- cashew,raisins - A few
- Saffron Strings - About 10
- Cardamom pdr-1 tsp
Cooking Method:
- Lightly roast moong dhal and rice.
- Add saffron string to this.
- Place the above in cooker for pressure cooking after adding 5 cups of milk.
- Do not add water as milk will be used instead.
- Remove from cooker and mash it up nicely.
- Add jaggery and stir until the mixture solidifies.
- Add cardamom powder.
- Fry Cashews and raisins in all of the ghee and add to the above.
- Serve hot with extra ghee.
