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Hayagreeva is a traditional and classic Karnataka sweet dish prepared using channa dal or bengal gram. Channa Dal is cooked with jaggery, milk and cardamom. This porridge like dish can be prepared quickly and is delicious. This is one of my favorites.
Ingredients:
Bengal Gram (Channa Dal) – 1 cup
Jaggery, powdered – 1 1/4 cups (adjust according to taste)
Milk – 1 1/2 cups
Grated Coconut – 1/4 cup
Poppy Seeds – 1 tbsp
Cloves – 4
Cashew Nuts – 10
Raisins – 10
Ghee – 1/2 cup
Method:
- Pressure cook bengal gram with 3 cups of water until bengal gram is soft.
- Boil jaggery with 1/2 cup water to prepare a syrup. Pass this syrup through a fine strainer to remove any unwanted particles.
- Dry roast coconut, cloves and poppy seeds separately. Let them cool and powder together.
- Strain out any excess water from cooked bengal gram.
- Take a thick bottomed pan, add jaggery syrup and cooked bengal gram.
- Cook until the syrup starts boiling.
- Add milk and continue to cook it on low flame until it thickens.
- Add powdered coconut, cloves and poppy seeds. Mix well.
- Roast cashew nuts and raisins with ghee and pour into cooking bengal gram. Mix well.
- Serve hot with ghee.
