Red Aval Paal Pongal | Red aval Sakkarai pongal | Red poha sweet recipe
 
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • Red beaten rice/poha/aval - ½ cup thin flakes
  • Milk - 1 cup
  • Jaggery - ⅓ cup
  • Cardamom powder - a generous pinch
To garnish:
  • Ghee - 1 tbsp
  • Broken cashews - 1 or 2 tbsp
  • Grated coconut - ¼ cup
Instructions
  1. Take ½ cup thin Red aval and rinse in water.
  2. Rinse once or twice. Then add lil water just till immersing level and let the aval soak for 10 mins.
  3. Boil 1 cup milk in a pan and once it rises up, stir with a long handled ladle. Leave the ladle inside and let the milk boil in medium high heat for 5+ mins.
  4. Add ⅓ cup jaggery and 1 tbsp water to a pan.
  5. Let it boil until nicely bubbles up and looks like honey. Filter for impurities and keep aside. Let it cool down completely.
  6. Milk would have been reduced in volume by now. Add soaked red aval to the boiling milk.
  7. Cook aval for 10 mins in milk. Then simmer the stove and add cooled jaggery syrup to it.
  8. Mix well and add a generous pinch of cardamom powder and cook in sim for 5 more mins.
  9. In a kadai, add a tbsp of ghee and fry broken cashews in medium flame till slightly browned. Take out the fried cashews from ghee and keep aside.
  10. Add ¼ cup grated coconut to the same ghee and fry till nice aroma wafts and coconut slightly changes to yellow color.
  11. Add ghee-fried cashews and coconut to cooked aval. Give a mix and switch off. The pongal will be slightly loose when switching off. It will thicken in 10 mins.
Notes
1.Optional : Dry-roast 2 tbsps of moong dal and cook it with lil water until soft, mash it and add it after adding aval. Add ghee-fried raisins for additional toppings.
2. Do not boil jaggery till it forms string/ball consistency. Just boil till thick enough to
flow thru a strainer.
3. Add cooled jaggery syrup, else it will curdle the milk.
4. After adding jaggery, don't forget to simmer the stove. If you allow to boil well
after adding the syrup, it might curdle the milk too.
Recipe by My Healthy Kiddo at https://www.myhealthykiddo.com/red-aval-paal-pongal-sweet-recipe/