Quinoa Pongal with Step by Step Pictures.
If you are looking for a healthy version then you will love it. I used karupatti as sweetner. You can use palm sugar in this too.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
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Ingredients
- Ghee - 2 tblsp + 1 tblsp
- Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu - 2 tblsp
- Quinoa - 1/2 cup
- Water - 2 cups
- Jaggery or Karupatti - 1 cup
- Water - 1/2cup
- Cashews - 2 tblsp
- Raisins - 2 tblsp
- Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp
- Dry Ginger Powder - 1/2 tsp
Instructions
- Heat 1 tsp of ghee, add moong dal and roast for a min.
- Add in quinoa and mix well.
- Add in water and mix well.
- Cover and cook.
- Now jaggery syrup and cook till it thickens.
- Add in ghee little by little and cook till it thickens.
- Add in cardamom and dry ginger powder.
- Fry cashews and raisins in ghee and add it in the pongal.
- Serve.
Pictorial:
1)Heat ghee in a pan. Add in moongdal.
2)Roast for a min.
3)Add in quinoa
4)Mix well
5)Add in water
6)Cover and cook
7)Take karupatti in a pan
8)Add water
9)Cook till it is melted.
10)Now the quinoa is cooked.
11)Add jaggery syrup
12)Mix well
13)Add in ghee little by little
14)Add in cardamom powder
15)Add in dry ginger powder
16)Mix well
17)Heat ghee in a pan
18)Add in cashews and raisins
19)Fry till golden
20)Add it in
21)Mix well
22)Serve
This looks so delicious.