Ven Pongal
Ven pongal is spicy version of pongal, the popular dish from South Indian
cuisine. Prepared with rice, milk, green gram dal as main ingredients Ven
Pongal is an ideal breakfast. Easy to cook and ready to serve, the recipe of
Ven pongal is here
Ingredients
- 1 cup: Raw rice
- ½ cup: Milk
- 1/3 cup: Green gram dal
- 11/2 tsp: Black pepper
- 1 tsp: Cumin seeds
- 1 tbs: Broken cashew nuts
- 1 tbs: Finely cut ginger (optional)
- A few: Curry leaves
- 2 tbs: Ghee
- 5 cup: Water
- Salt to taste
Method
- Wash rice and dal and cook them together in five cups of water for 10
minutes.
- Add salt, curry leaves and ginger with half a cup of milk. Simmer
for a minute and remove from fire.
- Fry cashew nuts, pepper and cumin seeds in ghee.
- Pour this over the rice-dal mixture.
- Mix well and serve steaming hot with ghee on top.
