Name: Kalkandu Pongal/Rock Candy Sweet Pongal/Kalkandu Sadham recipe by Priya Suresh at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 1/2cup Rice; 2cups Milk; 3/4cup Rock Sugar/Kalkandu; 3tbsp Ghee; Few cashews; A pinch Edible Camphor

ABOUT Kalkandu Pongal/Rock Candy Sweet Pongal/Kalkandu Sadham RECIPE

Rock Sugar/Rock candy/Sugar Candy is known as Kalkandu in Tamil, this rock sugar is used in South Indian cuisine for making many delightful desserts out of it.

Ingredients Serving: 3

1/2cup Rice
2cups Milk
3/4cup Rock Sugar/Kalkandu
3tbsp Ghee
Few cashews
A pinch Edible Camphor

Instructions

Wash the rice thoroughly and take the rice and milk in a vessel. Drop this vessel in a pressure cooker and pressure cook for 4 to 5 whistles.
Meanwhile grind the kalkandu/rock sugar as fine powder.
Once the steam gets released, tranfer the cooker rice-milk mixture to a heavy bottomed pan. Add the powdered rock sugar and cook everything in simmer for a while.
Meanwhile heat the ghee in a small pan, add the cashews and fry until they turns golden brown.
Add these fried cashewnuts,cardamom powder, edible camphor to the cooked sweet rice, give a stir.
Serve hot.

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