Sakkarai Pongal recipe easy pressure cooker method
Sakkarai Pongal recipe for Pongal | Chakkara Pongal recipe for Sankranti Pongal or Sankranti is celebrated in a very grand manner in villages and small towns where big kolams are drawn and Pongal is cooked in a new pot . Freshly harvested rice and vegetables etc are used for cooking. When we lived in a small town, Sweet Pongal was made by boiling the milk first and then adding rice, moong dhal and jaggery and cooking it. After the milk in the Pongal overflowed we all shouted in chorus " Pongalo Pongal " and worshipped the Sun God who we could see clearly from the fields or open fields. We do not have the same liberty in cities today. Today seeing the Sun and worshipping Him is a premium. So we can do what is practically possible in cities and towns where we live to celebrate Pongal as traditionally as possible. In Tamil as they say " ponnu vaikkum idathil poo vaipathu and the transliteration is if we cann...