Sweet pongal is a delicious South Indian dish made with rice, moong lentils, ghee, cardamoms and nuts. It is traditional dish mostly made to offer the gods on special occasions & festivals. Sweet pongal is known as chakkara pongali in telugu & sakkarai pongal in tamil. Sweet pongal is made in many traditional south Indian homes on the day of Makara sankranthi or pongal festival. This dish is said to have been prepared by our ancestors to signify and celebrate – abundance and prosperity after the harvest. After preparing sweet pongal it was offered as naivedyam to the Sun God as a part of the Thanksgiving ritual or puja. There are so many pongal recipes that are followed in South India based on the family traditions, customs, taste and main importantly region where they live.

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