Brown Rice Sakkarai Pongal - Pongalo Pongal

Wishing you all a happy pongal wishes!!!..After trying out a varieties of sweet and savoury pongals, am here with a delicious,healthy sweet pongal prepared with brown rice,moongdal along with jaggery..This pongal is really very quick to prepare as i went for pressure cooking the rice and dal together and finally cooking them in a jaggery syrup with cardamom powder and roasted cashew nuts,ghee...Needless to say that this pongal vanished within few minutes,yep we loved the warm sweet pongal and enjoyed  it..

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1cup Brown rice
1/2cup Moongdal
1/2tsp Cardamom powder
3/4cup Jaggery
2tbsp Ghee
Few roasted cashew nuts

Cook the brown rice,moongdal together in pressure cooker with 3 cups of water upto 3 whistles, meanwhile heat the jaggery powder with quarter cup of water,turn as a thick syrup, strain this syrup and keep aside..Once the steam gets released, mix the jaggery syrup along with the cooked rice-dal mixture,cardamom powder, ghee and roasted cashew nuts,cook until the mixture gets thickens..

Enjoy warm!