Recipes : Sweet Pongal & Hot Pongal

Favourite dishes of South Indians are Hot Pongal and Sweet Pongal. Let us know how to prepare both of them. Pongal is of two types. Let us know how to make Sweet Pongal. Ingredients required for making Sweet Pongal are Rice 1 cup Skinless Green Gram also called Moong Dal 1 4th cup Sugar 1 1⁄2 Kg Ghee 1 cup equal to 250 grams. Cardamom powder 1 tablespoon, dry fruits cashew nuts, almonds, kismis etc. Coconut powder half cup. Let us know the procedure of making sweet pongal. At first mixture of fresh rice and skinless green gram is taken into a container and washed thoroughly. This mixture is boiled in cooker for 15 to 20 minutes. Then sugar syrup is added to this mixture and stir it continuously for some time. We can further add coconut powder and then sprinkle cardamom powder. Now melt ghee and pour it in the mixture. After that fry all dry fruits in ghee and finally garnish it with the mixture. In this way sweet pongal is prepared. It is also known as chakra pongali. Instead of using sugar we can use jaggery also for making sweet pongal. Now let us know how to make hot pongal. The ingredients required for making hot pongal are Rice 1 cup, skinless green gram or moong dal 1 fourth cup, pepper 1 tablespoon, jeera 1 tablespoon, green chillies 3 or 4, ginger little. Let us know the procedure of making hot pongal. Take the mixture of rice and skinless green gram and wash it thoroughly. Fry pepper, jeera, green chillies in ghee just for 1 minute in cooker. Pour double quantity of water in proportion with rice. As soon as water boils, pour the mixture of rice and all in that cooker. Just like normal rice, boil it for 15 to 20 minutes. Take the lid after some time, thus prepared hot pongal can be served hot. When you observe the procedures of sweet pongal and hot pongal, the first one is described in the form of paragraph using sequence markers but the second one that is hot pongal is described in the form of steps where sequence markers are not used. These are described as points. In this way while describing any procedure or process we can write in the form of paragraph or you can write in the form of steps. Thank you.