What Pongal is
Pongal is the Tamil harvest festival. Families boil new rice with milk and jaggery until the pot overflows, and the dish of the same name, sweet sakkarai pongal or savoury ven pongal, is at the centre of the meal.
What people eat
Ven pongal with sambar and coconut chutney, sakkarai pongal, vadai, payasam and sugarcane.
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