Sakkarai Pongal
Veg
Sweet rice-and-dal porridge made by cooking raw rice and moong dal together with jaggery and coconut milk, perfumed with cardamom and dotted with raisins and cashews fried in ghee. The festival food of Tamil Nadu, prepared in enormous clay pots outdoors for Pongal (the harvest festival) — overflowing symbolises abundance.
Cuisines
Chettinad
Tamil Brahmin
Kongunadu
Madras
Udupi
Andhra
Best for
Breakfast
Dessert