kalkandu rice recipe /kalkandu pongal /sugar candy sadam
Ingredients
- Raw rice/pacharisi - 1/2 cup soak for half an hour
- Milk boiled milk - 2 cups
- Cardamom powder - 3/4 tsp
- Cashews broken - 1 tbsp
- Raisins - 1 tbsp
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
- Sugar candy/kalkandu - 3/4 cup make into powder
- Nutmeg powder/jadhikkai - a pinch
Instructions
- Wash and soak rice.
- Bring milk to boil in a pressure cooker when it boils add washed and soaked rice.
- When it is 1/2 cooked ,close the lid and keep for 1or 2 whistles or till cooked.
- Powder the sugar candy and keep aside.
- In a separate kadai add ghee fry cashews to golden,then add raisins to puff up.
- Open the cooker now the rice should be mashy or mash it further.
- Add powdered sugar and cook till every thing comes together.
- Then add powdered cardamom powder and grated nutmeg mix well
- At last switch off the stove add,fried nuts and raisins,mix and serve.
Notes
Adding nutmeg is optional.
Instead of sugar candy you can use normal sugar.
Don’t add sugar before the rice is well cooked,because after adding sugar the rice won’t cook.
If you want to dry roast rice then do that way too.
I soaked the rice for 30 minutes before adding to the boiling milk.
Instead of sugar candy you can use normal sugar.
Don’t add sugar before the rice is well cooked,because after adding sugar the rice won’t cook.
If you want to dry roast rice then do that way too.
I soaked the rice for 30 minutes before adding to the boiling milk.