Kalkandu Pongal | கல்கண்டு பொங்கல் | Pongal Recipes | Kalkandu Sadam
Kalkandu Pongal or Kalkandu Sadam is delicious naivedyam or prasadam made with rock candy, milk and rice. Offered to God on festival days and at temples during Pongal and other festivals.
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
- Thick Bottomed Pan
- Ladle
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Raw rice any non-aromatic short grained Indian rice will work
- 1 Milk boiled and cooled
- 3/4 cup Candy Sugar Kalkandu, adjust sweetness
- 4 tsp Ghee clarified butter
- 4 Raisins
- 6 cashewnuts
- 1 generouspinch Saffron
- 1/16 pinch edible camphor (Pachai Karpooram - optional but recommended
Instructions
- Wash and soak rice for 10 mins, pressure cook with the milk for 4-5 whistles.
- Once the pressure releases, mash the rice while still hot.
- Fry the cashews and raisins in 1 tsp ghee till plump and golden brown, reserve.
- Soak the saffron in 1 TBSP hot milk for 10 mins.
- In a non stick pan, add the mashed rice and kalkandu (the sugar will dissolve due to the heat, and don’t worry if it leaves some water in the vessel – the dish with thicken upon cooling), add half of the ghee , saffron and mix well.
- Add the pachai karpooram and turn off the heat.
- Now add the remaining ghee if any and the fried raisins and cashews
- Offer to God as Naivedyam and serve warm
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