Delicious Sweet Dish Makar Chaula (Rice)

Hello Hivean,
Wish you all Happy Makar Sankanti or Pongal. Makar Sankranti or samkranti here means ‘transfer’, this day is considered as the transition day of Sun into the Capricorn.
This sankranti is dedicated to Almighty Sun ( Suryadev) and change its suns transition from Makara Capricon) Rashii(zodiac sign). It is consider for the most auspicious occasion in the Hindu culture
So that we are preparing Makar Chaula as Prasad to serve to Lord suryadev and all other gods in our Temples. It is one of the favourite dish of the Lord Jagannath and lord Shiva. The dish is prepared by all the people in the eastern part of the Odisha. That why purpose today, we are preparing Maker Chaula at our home.
Makar Chaula is a delicious dish, ones it will prepare, you will love it. It has lots of nutrition’s inside it. The following ingredients are required for making the Makar Chaula.
Ingredients a

1. New Raw rice(250 grams)
2. Grinded Coconut(1bowl)
3. Jaggery (gud) (150 grams)
4. Milk Powder (100 grams)
5. Banana(2 large bananas)
6. Chenna (200 grams)
7. Chopped Ginger( 10-15 grams)
8. Black Pepper powder(5-10 grams)
9. Kaju & Kismis(50 grams each for garnishing)
10. Almonds(50 grams)
11. Grapes(100 grams)
12. Chopped Apple(250 grams)
13. Pomegranates(100 grams)
14. Cardamom(3 grams)

Rice Soak in Water

Fruits

Dry Fruits

Black Pepper and Cardamom

Ginger

Coconut

Milk

Jaggery

Chenna

Process:
At first we took 250 gram of new raw rice. We cleaned it and soaked in water for couples of hours. Then we took out the rice from the water; put it in a mixer grinder. Then we did the half grinding of the soaked rice, so that the rice should not be polished. If required you can put some milk at the time of grind instead of water and then it is kept in a bowl.
Then we took a big bowl in which the above half grinded rice and chopped fruits with other ingredients like coconut, chenna, sugar or jaggery, ginger, cardamom, black pepper, kaju, kismis, almonds, fruits (as per you wish) . Then we have smashed with our hands as it should have a good coarse texture. Especially this task should be performed with hands because it makes the Makar Chawal tastier. So before doing it, we have cleaned our hands. While mixing it with our hands we added some milk at regular intervals.

Soaked Rice Grinned with Little Milk

Chopped Apples

Chopped Bananas

Chopped Grapes

Pomegranate Seeds

Chopped Ginger

Fruits ready for mix with rice milk and other ingredients

Everything is putting in a bowl for preparation of Delicius Makar Chaula

Garnished Makar Chaula

Ready to Serve Delicious Makar Chaula