Pongal is a South Indian breakfast which is very simple to prepare. It is one dish which just cannot go wrong. Ven Pongal or Khara Pongal is the spicy version of Pongal. There is also a Sweet Pongal. Let's see how to make the Khara (spicy) version. It is not only delicious but also very healthy and easy to digest.
Preparation:
Cooking time: 30 mins. Serves 2
Ingredients:
- Rice - 1 cup
- Moong dal/Green Gram/ Paasi paruppu/ Cherupayar parippu - 1/2 cup
- Salt - to taste
- Pepper seeds (full)
- Cumin seeds/ Jeera seeds
- Chopped ginger
- Curry leaves
- Cashews (fried in ghee/butter)
- Ghee/ Butter - 2 spoons
Preparation:
- Wash rice and fry it in a deep pan for 2 mins. No oil or ghee required. Keep aside.
- Wash Moong dal and fry it for 2 mins. No oil or ghee required. Keep aside.
- Take a pressure cooker and transfer fried rice and dal. Add 3.5 to 4 cups of water.
- Add salt and mix well. Cook it in the pressure cooker and wait for 7 whistles and switch off the stove.
- Wait till the steam goes off completely. This could take 10-15 mins.
- Take a small frying pan and heat. Pour 3 spoons of oil and once it is hot, add cumin seeds. Wait till it crackles.
- Add the chopped ginger, pepper seeds and curry leaves and fry for 1 min.
- Open the pressure cooker once the steam is off, stir the mixture well. Rice-dal will be mushy. This is what we want.
- Now add the fried ginger-pepper-curry leaves-cumin seeds mixture and mix well. Add fried cashews as well and mix.
- Take a small bowl and transfer some of the mixture to it and now topple this into a plate.
- Pongal is ready to eat. Adding 2 spoons of ghee/ butter on top of this will only add to the taste.
Combine hot pongal with delicious sambar to get the best of both the dishes. For yummy sambar,
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How to prepare ven pongal