Sweet and Yummy Almond Pongal/ Badam Pongal

Almond Pongal/ Badam Pongal

Ingredients required ffor preparing Almond/ Badam Pongal

Ghee – 2 Teaspoons

Rice – 1 Cup

Split Green Gram Dal – ½ Cup

Milk – ½ Cup

Almond – 100 gram

Jaggery – ½ Cup

Saffron flakes – 1 Pinch

Almond Pongal Preparation Procedure

First put almonds in water and boil it for few minutes. This is just to make the almonds softened which will help you in removing its skin layer.

Then grind it in a mixer and make it as a fine paste.

Now take a cooker pan and add a cup of washed rice and half a cup of split green  gram to it.

In this pour 3 cups of water and cook for just one whistle in high flame and five minutes in low flame.

After the rice and moong  dal/ split green gram gets cooked add a spoon ghee, ½ cup of milk and also add the almond paste to it.

Let it get thickened. Keep stirring until that.

Then in a separate vessel put jiggery and add enough water with it (3 Cups). Make it into a thin liquid side by side while the rice gets boiled.

Now add this jaggery liquid into this cooker pan and blend them both together.

Finally allow it to thicken by occasional stirring. And then transfer it to serving bowl and sprinkle a pinch of saffron and pour a spoon of ghee above it.

That’s all, our Almond pongal is ready to serve now.