Pongal is a typical SouthIndian dish that is usually served with sambar or chutney...Apart from idli and dosa,this one holds it unique place in all home....
Pongal is served in the morning as breakfast..It is a protein rich one pot meal which is really nutritious...
I hope you all like it...Let me know what you think..
Ingrediants:
Rice- 1 cup
Split yellow moong dal / Pasiparuppu-1 cup
Salt to taste
Water-6 cup
Spices:
Ghee-3 tblspn
Cumin seeds-2 tsp
Cashew-3 tblspn
Green chilli-3 chopped
Ginger-2 tblspn grated
Pepper-1 tblspn
Curry leaves-1 spring
Method:
Soak rice and dal together for 30 mins..Drain it and set aside..
Heat 1 tblspn of ghee in a pressure cooker and add in rice and dal...Fry this for 5 mins..
Pour in the water and bring this to a boil...Add in salt...
Cover and cook for 5 whistle and simmer it for 10 mins..Let the pressure go by itself...Open the pressure cooker and mix well..
Heat ghee in a kadai and add in cashews, cumin seeds, pepper, ginger, green chilli, curry leaves and sauté this for a minute..
Now add in rice and dal mixture and mix well..Let the rice absorb all flavours...
Mix this for 3 mins...
Serve hot with sambar or chutney..
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Pictorial:
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| Take all your ingrediants...Please add in curry leaves too... |
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| Heat some ghee in pressure cooker |
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| add in rice and dal |
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| fry for 5 mins |
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| pour in water and salt |
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| bring that to boil...Cover and cook |
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| Till the rice is cooked |
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| Melt some ghee |
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| add in cashews |
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| then ginger... |
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| cumin seeds.... |
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| green chillies.... |
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| pepper.... |
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| and your curry leaves |
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| fry for 1 min... |
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| add in the rice and dal mixture |
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| mix well |
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| I stored it in hot case |
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| Serve... |
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| Who would say no to this... |
18 comments:
I surely can't say not that plate in the last click...looks mouthwatering, and making me hungry.
WOW! These flavors sound so amazing and I love the cashews in the dish!
Yumm and delicious Venpongal.My fav Breakfast item dear. Tasting it visually.Thanks for the treat.
delicious looking combination looks wonderful
WOW amazing clicks..and yummyyy pongal!!!
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Quite a while since I made this.. soul comforting... with chutney and sambar.. slurp..
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This type of breakfast would surely give you enough energy for wuite soem hours.And sounds delicious on top of taht:)
Just drooling over that last click, soo tempting..
Absolutely love ven pongal.
luv this all time classic recipe! can't wait for ur sambar recipe....
the rice is all smashed up and soft...love this texture in venpongal...
Yummy, nothing can beat this, long time since I made/had this! This weekend, idhu dhan breakfast ;)
Nothing can beat this for breakfast...yummy
this is the perfect pongal....whenever i do pongal either overcooked or lesscooked...will try ur ratio and do it...thank u for sharing!
I love this too ...and your's looks perfect dear
Love this...looks absolutely delicious....mouthwatering and yummy.
I love this anyday...looks perfect
I'm always looking for new fun ways to cook rice! This sounds super tasty!
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