KALKANDU SADAM RECIPE / SWEET PONGAL

KALKANDU SADAM RECIPE

                         How To make Kalkandu Pongal Recipe ( கல்கண்டு பொங்கல்)

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To enjoy this beautiful day I have posted traditional south Indian sweet recipe – Kalkandu sadam Recipe / Kalkandu pongal. I love all kinds of pongal varities but my favourite are kalkandu pongal and sakkarai pongal. I really like unique taste and the flavour of this pongal, the sweetness from sugar candy just remains in tastebuds for long time. Kalkandu sadam is given as prasatham in temples and many people offered to god during pooja.

To make this kalkandu pongal, all you need is rice, sugar candy, ghee and nuts. For rice, you can use raw rice or basmathi rice. Here I used small kalkandu, you can also use big sugar candy to make this sweet.

Try out this delicious and mouthwatering kalkandu sadam recipe, it just tastes divine.

Preparation Time : 10 mins    Cooking Time : 15 mins     Serves : 4

Ingredients for kalkandu sadam recipe

  • 1 Cup of Raw Rice
  • 2 Cups of Kalkandu (Sugar Candy)
  • 1 Cups of Milk
  • 2 Cups of Water
  • 4 Tbsp of Ghee (Clarified Butter)
  • 3 Cardamom, Crushed
  • Few Cashews and raisins
  • Few Strands of Saffron

Method for Kalkandu Pongal Recipe

  • Soak the rice for 1 hr and keep it aside.
  • In a mixie, add kalkandu (sugar candy) and grind it to a fine powder.
  • Heat a pan with ghee, roast the cashews and raisins until it changes colour.
  • Wash the rice and add milk and water. Pressure cook this for 4 whistles. After it is done, mash the rice with the back of the ladle or use masher.
  • In a medium flame, add kalkandu powder followed by ghee, keep stirring and mix well with rice. Finally add crushed cardamom, cashews, raisins and saffron. Mix well and turn off the flame.
  • Serve hot with generous amount of ghee….It tastes yummy and heavenly in taste.

Tips

  • You can add 1/4 cup of moong dal along with rice while pressure cooking. This step is optional.
  • For sweetness, you can add jaggery along with sugar candy. Some people do like that.
  • Instead of powdered sugar candy, you can add as such, as it will melt when you heated up.
  • Add any nuts of your choice.

KALKANDU SADAM RECIPE

 

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