Ven pongal/Ghee pongal - Traditional Indian Pongal Recipe

ven pongal

Ingredients:

Raw rice	1 cup
Yellow mung dal/Paasi parupu	¼ cup(roasted)
Grated coconut	¼ cup
Ginger(chopped)	1 table spoon
Water	4 cups
Black Pepper powder/Crushed black pepper	As required
Salt	As required
Ghee	2 table spoon
Cashew nuts	Few
Curry leaves	Few
Jeera/cumin seeds	¼ tea spoon
Asafoetida	A pinch

How to prepare ven pongal:

• Roast the cashewnut in ghee and set aside.
• Dry roast the mung dal, wash the rice and dal. Fry the ginger and asafeotida for few second in ghee and add the rice, mung dal, salt, pepper  with water.
• Cook it well and mash it.
• Now temper the jeera, curry leaves and add this to cooked rice along with cashew nut and coconut. Now remove from the flame.
• After the add 2 table spoon of milk to increase the taste.
• Have the with the side dish Ulunthu Vadai.

for sweet pongal recipe click here

for more dishes visit Indian Recipes