Ven Pongal

Preparation Time : 15 minutes

Cooking Time : 20 minutes

Servings : 2

Ingredients

Rice –1/2 cup

Moong dal – 1/2 cup

Peppercorns – 1 tbsp

Jeera – 1 tbsp

Ginger – 1” piece chopped finely

Cashew nuts – 6 broken

Ghee – 1 ladle

Salt – as per taste

Curry leaves

Hing / Asafoetida—11/2 teaspoon

Water - 5 cups

Procedure

1. Wash rice and dhal well.

2. Roast rice and dhal well in ghee for 5 minutes in medium flame.

3. Cook rice and dhal together with salt and 5 cups of water  in a pressure cooker for 5 whistles. 

4. Using a pestle and mortar make a coarse powder or jeera and pepper.

5. In a little ghee, fry the coarse jeera-pepper powder, ginger, curry leaves and cashew nuts. 

6. Finally add the hing to the hot ghee

7. Add them to the cooked rice and dal mix, add a ladle of ghee. The pongal should be of loose consistency.