ChakraPongali

Ingredients:

Long grain rice: 4 cups

Moong dhal: 1 cup

Jaggery: 5 cups

Sugar: 1 cup

Butter: 2 1/2 sticks

Water: 8 cups

Elachi pwd: 1/2 tbsp

Sugar chips: 1/2 cup

Raisins: 1/2 cup (fry them in butter).

Coconut pieces: 1/2 cup (Remove the brown layer from the coconut pieces, cut them into small pieces, and fry them in butter).

Method:

Wash rice and moong dhal and cook them with 8 cups water and about 1/2 stick butter.

Mean while soak jaggery and sugar with about 1/2 cup water for about 1/2 hour.

In a heavy bottom pan fry raisins and coconut pieces in about 1/2 stick butter separately and keep aside.

Keep the jaggery and sugar mixture on heat and keep stirring until it starts to boil. Then filter the syrup to remove any impurities and keep it back on heat until you get the syrup to ball consistency. Remove from heat and add elachi pwd and the cooked rice to the syrup along with the butter sticks, raisins, and coconut pieces.

Let it cool and then add the sugar chips other wise the sugar chips may melt.

Enjoy.

I got this recipe from my sister-in-law who is an expert in making this dish. Thank you sasi for sharing this recipe with me.