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Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe is given below with step-by-step instructions and important tips to make a tasty sweet Pongal Recipe.

Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe | Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe | Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe

Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe is a delicious, flavourful and traditional South Indian sweet recipe. It is a popular millet-based sweet recipe. You can easily make this Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe within 30 minutes and serve it as a breakfast, dessert or snack recipe. The Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe is given below with step-by-step instructions and important tips to make a tasty sweet Pongal Recipe.

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What is Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe?

Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe is a delicious, flavourful and traditional sweet recipe. It is a popular millet-based South Indian recipe typically made during Pongal festival/Harvest festival.

What is Pongal?

Pongal is a popular South Indian dish made with freshly harvested rice along with pasi paruppu/yellow moong dal. Pongal recipes can be made into a sweet or savoury recipes. Freshly harvested rice/raw rice is the main ingredient used to make the Pongal recipe. However, sometimes millets can be substituted for making the Pongal recipes. You can use any variety of millet to make both sweet and savoury Pongal recipes. Here, in this post, I have shared Sweet Pongal/Sakkarai Pongal using Thinai Arisi/Foxtail millet.

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All right, let's move on to the Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Ingredients/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Ingredients followed by the Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe and important tips to make a tasty Sweet Pongal Recipe/Sakkarai Pongal Recipe.

Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Ingredients/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Ingredients

Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe is a delicious and flavourful sweet recipe made with Foxtail millet/Thinai arisi as the main ingredient and flavoured with jaggery, milk, cardamom powder, a pinch of salt and seasoned with ghee, cashew nuts and raisins. Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe also includes pasi paruppu/yellow moong dal as the main ingredient.

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How to make Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal?/How to make Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal?/Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe/How to make sweet Pongal using millet?

Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe is a delicious, flavourful and traditional South Indian sweet recipe. It is a popular millet-based sweet recipe. You can easily make this Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe within 30 minutes and serve it as a breakfast, dessert or snack recipe.

Cuisine - South Indian
Serving - 4
Timing - 30 minutes

INGREDIENTS

Thinai Arisi/Foxtail Millets - 1 cup
Pasi Paruppu/Yellow Moong Dal - 1/4 cup
Water - 4 cups
Milk - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 350 gms
Salt - a pinch
Cardamom Powder - 1 teaspoon
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Cashew Nuts - 10
Raisins - 10

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To begin making the Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe - Firstly, clean and winnow the foxtail millet/thinai arisi to remove dust and debris.

2. To Roast - Heat a pan over a moderate flame and add yellow moong dal and dry roast for 1-2 minutes until a nice aroma appears and transfer to a plate.

3. In the same pan add foxtail millet/thinai arisi and dry roast for 2-3 minutes and transfer to a plate.

4. Allow both ingredients to cool completely.

5. Now wash both the ingredients together in 3-4 exchanges of water.

6. To cook - In a pressure cooker, add washed dal, millet, 3 cups of water, milk, a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon ghee and pressure cook for 4 whistles.

7. Meanwhile, heat a pan over a moderate flame and add a cup of water, and jaggery and allow the jaggery to melt completely. Once done, turn off the flame and strain the jaggery syrup carefully.

8. Now open the pressure cooker and add jaggery syrup and cook over a moderate flame for 6-7 minutes.

9. To Fry - Heat a tablespoon of ghee and add cashew nuts and fry to golden and add raisins and fry for a few seconds.

10. Now add fried nuts to foxtail millet Pongal.

11. Finally add cardamom powder and remaining ghee mix all the ingredients well. Turn off the flame.

12. Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe is ready.

You can serve this Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Sakkarai Pongal Recipe as a dessert, breakfast or snack recipe.

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Important tips to make a tasty Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal Recipe/Thinai Arisi Sweet Pongal Recipe

1. Always use freshly dated thinai arisi/foxtail millet. Because a few months old thinai arisi/foxtail millet tastes bitter.

2. Colour of this recipe totally depends upon the jaggery used. So, use good quality jaggery.

3. You can increase or decrease the level of sweetness in this recipe.

4. Sweet Pongal/Sakkarai Pongal needs a good amount of ghee. So use accordingly.

5. You can replace foxtail millet with any of your favourite millet to make this recipe.

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