Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal
A delicious and healthy foxtail millet sweet pongal also called Thinai sakkarai pongal in Tamil. This foxtail millet sweet pongal is one of the tastiest pongal I have ever had.
Servings: 3 people
Calories: 400kcal
Equipment
- pressure cooker, tadka pan
Ingredients
- Foxtail Millet – 1 cup
- moong dal – 3/4 cup
- Ghee – 5 tbsp
- water – 5 cups
- powdered jaggery – 2 cups
- salt – less than 1/4 tsp
- cashews – 10 to 12
- raisins – 10 to 12
- cardamom – 3 crushed
Instructions
- soak the millet for 1 hr and dal for 30 min.
- filter the water and fry them in the pressure cooker adding 1 tbsp of ghee
- add water and cook them for 5 whistles
- they turn mushy.
- add the powdered jaggery, salt and mix well
- In a small tadka pan, add the remining ghee and fry the raisins and cashews.
- add the fried nuts and crushed cardamom to the millet pongal
- tasty foxtail millet sweet pongal is ready to be served.
Notes
1. instead of jaggery, you can add karupatti or katti vellam
2. i used powdered jaggery for easy cooking, if you are using katti vellam, melt it with water and add to the millet
3. the colour of the pongal changes according to the jaggery we use
2. i used powdered jaggery for easy cooking, if you are using katti vellam, melt it with water and add to the millet
3. the colour of the pongal changes according to the jaggery we use