Pongal

Pongal is one of the popular south Indian dish and in tamil is called Venn Pongal and its mostly served in breakfast time. Its very easy to make. Now lets see the ingredients....

Ingredients:

1 Cup Sona masoori rice

1/4 cup Moong dhal

1 tsp Black pepper(whole)

1 tsp Jeera

small piece of fresh ginger(chop like small pieces)

1/2 serving spoon ghee

1 tsp hing

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

5,6 cashew (optional)

1/2 serving spoon oil

4, 5 curry leaves

1tsp salt

                                                  

Method:

1. Wash rice and dhal together and drain nicely.

2. Add 4 cups of water, salt and pressure cooker it.

3. Try to over cook the rice. so that it will be easy to mash.

4. Open the lid, add ghee, turmeric powder and hing.

5.  Mix and Mash the boiled rice very nicely.

6.  Heat small frying pan, add oil and pepper, jeera, ginger and curry leaves.

7. Add this to pongal and mix it well.

8. Pongal is ready. Serve with sambhar or chutney.

Notes:

1. if you like, you can fry cashew separately in the small frying pan with ghee until its gets golden brown and add it to pongal.

2. Adjust ghee, oil and salt according to your taste.

3. One more way of making pongal . Heat the pressure cooker, dry roast the dhal and then cook with rice. My mother-in- law does that. she believes that it will give good taste to pongal. you can try this method also. because it was time consuming i am not doing that. ;)
4. You can also use Basmati rice, adjust the water accordingly

Thanks :))