Pongal Recipes

1.  Contributor: Radha
I tried this ven pongal.It came out well.U can fallow these steps..

Ven pongal can be cooked in two ways. One is adding the seasoning after cooking rice and dal. The other is doing the reverse way. Adding seasoning to the uncooked rice and dal, then cooking. In this way, the pongal color may look more darker than the first way of cooking.You can add some milk together with water instead of whole water to cook the pongal. This may add some mild sweetness to the pongal. Some people like to add grated ginger to the pongal. You can customize the seasoning according to your taste.

Now follows the recipe:

Ingredients:

* Rice - 1 cup (uncooked)
* Green gram dal(split) - 1/2 cup(Roasted)
* Salt - to taste
* Ghee and Oil - 2 to 3 teaspoons
* Water - to cook pongal

For seasoning:

* Cashew nuts - 10 -12
* Red chilies - 2
* Hing - 1/4 teaspoon
* Cumin seeds - 2 teaspoon
* Peppercorns - 1 ½ teaspoon
* Curry leaves - a sprig

Recipe:

1. Heat very little ghee or oil in a pan. Add split green gram dal and fry till it turns into light brown. Remove from heat.
2. Wash rice and roasted dal in water. Cook Rice and dal together with salt in pressure cooker or in a vessel. To cook in pressure cooker, add 3 ½ to 4 cups of water and leave for 3 whistles. Once the steam is released from the cooker, do the seasoning.
3. For seasoning: Heat Oil and Ghee in a pan. Add Cashew nuts and fry till it turns into light brown. Then add Red chilies, Cumin seeds, Peppercorns, Hing and Curry leaves, fry for 1 or 2 minutes.
4. Pour this mix to cooked pongal and mix.

Serve with coconut chutney or sambar.. It will b yummy...

2.  Contributor: Gayathri
Rice 1 cup--- soak it for 15 mins

Moong Dhal: 1/2 cup... just heat in a pan for few mins.. do not make it go brown...

U can add coconut milk while u keep it in Pressure cooker

Keep it for like 5 -6 whistles...The water will be the same as u use it for rice n dhal but make sure u pour 1 more extra cup

for the sizzling, heat ghee, put jeera and let it splutter , add ginger, green chillies, curry leaves, pepper powder or pepper and then add this to the pongal mixture add salt and mix well...

Serve hot and when u serve , add a tablespoon of ghee on top

This is how I do it.... hope it turns out well :-))

3.  Contributor: Praneetha
For pongal recipe :

Ingredients :
Rice - 1 cup
Moong dal - 1/2 or 3/4 cup
perpper corns - 1 spoon
cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
chana,urad dal - 1tsp
hing
oil
ghee
curry leaves
red chillies dry - 2/3
green chillies - 3/4
salt

In a pressure cooker pan, take rice n dal (together), add enough water (21/2 cups) and cook for 3 whistles. Then, in a tadka pan, do the tadka and add this to the cooked stuff. Tadka will be good with ghee. You are ready to serve.

Generally in Andhra, we serve it in proper solid form. In TN, they serve it in liquid form. For tht all u have to do is, keep the vessel on med flame, add 1 more cup of water and stir well, so tht water distributes nicely. Then turn off and serve.

Both cases, u can serve with coconut chutney,pickle or any sweet pulusu. we usually serve with menthi pulusu. It's an awesome combination.

4.  Contributor: Srividya Hari
nenu aithe hot pongal ila chesthanu. chinna cooker lo one spoon ghee vesi cashews, 1 tbsp jeera, 1tbsp black pepper, 1-2 sprigs of curry leaves vesi, fry ayyaka, rice and pesarappu equal quantity lo theesukuni wash chesukuni adi kuda light ga fry cheyyali. ipudu water 3 - 3.5 times add cheyyali ante rice+pesarapappu 1 cup theesukunte 3 to 3.5 cups water posi, salt vesi cooker lo 4-6 whistles varaku cook cheyyali. mutha vachaka u can add ghee and eat as is with pickle and curd. lekapothe malla paina nunchi konchem jeera, and hing thoti tadka vesukovacchu. inkonchem ekkuva variation kavalante u can add veggies like carrots, peas, alu to this.

inkoti - 1/2 cup pesarapappu+1/2 cup rice vesi chesina kaani ekkuva quantity vasthundi ee item because of moong dal and lots of water. so chaalaa ekkuva cheyyoddu waste avuthundi. hot pongal challaga ayyaka thinte gatti padipoyi thinadam kashtam ga untundi mingudu padakunda, so vedi vedi gaane thineyyali

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