In addition to cow’s milk or coconut milk, rice, dhal, jaggery, Shakkarai or kalkandu, roasted green gram (payaru), raisins, cashew nuts and some pods of cardamom are added to the dish.

The celebration of Pongal began across South India on Monday ... as people burn unwanted household items in a blaze made of wood and cow dung cakes on this day. Villages and towns across both ...

This celebration is also known as Bhogi Mantalu, as people burn unwanted household items in a blaze made of wood and cow dung cakes on this day. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Pongal is ...