Mango Chakkar Pongali

Chakkara Pongali is a south Indian delicacy made with rice, sugar and ghee. Giving a mango twist to this authentic dish can give your taste buds a mesmerizing playful experience. You can not just stop eating it.

Check out this delicious recipe

Ingredients:

Rice : 1 tbspn (washed and soaked for 1 hr)
Sugar : 1.5 tbspn
Mango Puree : 3 1/2 tbspn
Cardamom powder : 1/4 tspn
Ghee : 2 to 3 tspns
water : 3 to 4 tbpns
Cashew nuts : few sauted in clarified ghee
Pistachios : few cut them in two halves.

Method :

• Place a pan on medium flame add rice and water in to it.
• Let it cook on medium flame.

• Add sugar when rice is just cooked but you can still see water and moist.
• Adding sugar when there is still some water left will make sugar melt and rice can absorb the sweetness from the sugar easily.

• Reduce the flame, stir in cardamom powder and ghee.
• let it cook on low flame for about 2 to 3 mins.

• Turn off the flame and let it sit for 5 mins.
• Now add mango puree and mix it with cooked rice and sugar.

• Now turn on the flame to sim, close the lid and let it cook for 5 to 6 mins.
• You can add more sugar or mango puree as per your taste.

• Stir rice occasionally to avoid burning and sticking to the bottom of the pan.
• After 5 to 6 mins add cashewnuts and pistachios and mix.
• Turn off the flame and serve it cold or hot with mango slices.

Note :

1. Traditionally soaked yellow moong dal should also be cooked along with rice and sugar. But i didnt want any protien to over shadow the taste of mango, in my sweet dish, so I had to exclude it. 
2. But you can add moong dal if you wish to. 
3. Measurement would be 1.5 tspn for 1 tbspn of rice.