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ven pongal

Ven Pongal Recipe

Course Breakfast
Cuisine Indian
Keyword breakfast
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 2
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • Raw Rice - 1/2 cup
  • yellow lentil/ Moong dhuli dal/pasi paruppu - 1/4 cup
  • Ginger - 1 tbsp (grated)
  • Pepper Corns - 1 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Green chilli - 1 (chopped)
  • Curry leaves - 1 sprig
  • Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
  • Cashews - 8 (broken)
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
  • Salt - 1/2 TSP

Instructions

  1. Clean rice and lentil in water nicely. Drain the water.

  2. Heat a 3 liter pressure cooker and add clean rice and lentil and salt.. Add 3+1/2 cups of water and when it starts boiling close the cooker and let it cook for 3-4 whistles. When the pressure comes down, open the cooker and lightly mash it.

  3. Add ghee in a small frying pan and add cumin, cashews, curry leaves, pepper, chopped ginger, chopped green chillies, cumin seeds and sauté for few seconds. Add this mixture into the pressure cooker. Mix it well.

  4. Serve it hot with Coconut chutney and Sambar/Gotsu. 

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