Millet sweet pongal
A traditional South Indian style sweet Pongal recipe that is made by using millets and jaggery. Have this vegan and the gluten-free dish as a dessert or as a breakfast.
Servings 3
Ingredients
- ¼ cup millet Any small millets like Foxtail millet or Little millet or Proso millet or Kodo millet
- ¼ cup moong dal
- 1.5 cups water To cook millet and lentil mixture
- ½ cup jaggery
- ½ cup water to add along with jaggery powder
- Pinch of nutmeg or cardamom powder
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
Cooking millet mixture in an Instant Pot
- Add washed millet, washed moong dal to the Instant Pot inner pot. Add water to it and close the lid.
- Seal the vent of Instant Pot and select manual mode. Cook for 8 minutes on high pressure.
- It will take around 10 to 12 minutes for pressure to build up. Once the Instant pot stops, wait for 10 minutes and do a manual pressure release. Mix it well.
Cooking millet mixture in a pressure cooker or an electric rice cooker
- Add washed millet, washed mung dal to the pressure cooker, or electric rice cooker inner pot.
- Now add water and pressure cook for 2 to 3 whistles. Once pressure is released naturally, mix the cooked millet dal and add water to adjust the consistency.
Making millet sweet Pongal
- Whenever I cook millet and lentil mixture, along with this sweet Pongal, I also make ven Pongal. If you are doing both the recipes, take some portion of millet mixture into a cooking vessel or pan, add jaggery powder and water.
- Cook this millet jaggery mixture for 7 to 8 minutes on stove top. You could cook this mixture in the pressure cooker also.
- If using Instant Pot add jaggery and water to the millet mixture and turn on saute mode in Instant Pot and cook it for 4 to 5 minutes. Once it is cooked well and the mixture becomes a little thick, turn off the Instant Pot.
- Now add cardamom powder or grated Nutmeg and mix it well.
- Garnish the millet sweet Pongal with cashews and raisins.