Pongal / Ven Pongal Recipe

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Pongal / Ven Pongal Recipe


Ingredients:

  • Moong dal / Pasi parupu 1/2 cup
  • Raw rice / hand pounded rice / arisi 1 cup
  • Ginger / Inji 1 inch
  • Ghee / oil / nei 1/2 cup
  • Curry leaves/ karuverpilai 
  • Cashew / munthiri 
  • Pepper / milagu 10 nos
  • Jeera / siragam 1 spoon

Directions:

 Take a pressure cooker and add ghee / oil and heat it up
 Once the ghee / oil is hot add a spoonful jeera and pepper
 Add 1/2 cup of moong dal along with jeera and pepper and fry it for a minute
 Add rice to the same and saute for a couple of minutes in a medium flame
 You can see the nicely roasted rice and dal
 Now add 5 cups of water and salt. You can add green chilli now, (I'm making for kid so I'm not adding chilli..) and allow it to boil

Check the salt and pressure cook it for 2-3 whistles and simmer it for a minute and switch off the flame.
 Once the pressure releases open the lid and your Pongal will be like this
 Now add some boiling water and adjust the consistency how you like.
 Once it's done check the taste..and add salt or pepper powder if needed
 Add ghee / oil and heat it up
 Add cashews and fry in a slow flame
Add ginger and curry leaves once the cashew is golden in colour
 Transfer the same to Pongal and mix it well
Pongal is ready 😃 It goes well with Sambar and coconut chutney..

Note:
 If you want you can make it in a different way... pressure cook moong dal and rice first then finally heat up the kadai add jeera,pepper powder, ginger, curry leaves , cashews and transfer on top of Pongal..it will also tastes good.

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