Recipe Description

Venn Pongal is a delicious recipe for the festive season of Pongal. This is a very tasty and easy to cook recipe which is famous as breakfast but you can eat it in Dinner, Lunch or even in morning breakfast meal.

Ingredients

• Ghee -2 Tbsp
• Ginger- 1 tbsp
• Soaked rice -1 cup
• Moong dal -¼ cups
• Water -as req
• Salt- to taste

For Tempering

• Ghee- 2 tbsp
• Whole black pepper -1 tsp
• Cashew nuts – 1 tbsp
• Hing- a pinch
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves – 14 to 16 leaves

 

Method

• Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a presser cooker and add chopped ginger in it and toss it for 2 mins.
• Then add soaked rice, salt and yellow Moong dal and add water as req or 4 cups (4 cups water for 1 or 1 ½ cup of rice)
• Let it cook until 2 whistles.
• Now in a pan add ghee, whole pepper, cashew nuts, hing, cumin seeds, and curry leaves.
• Let it crackle then transfer the rice in the pan and mix it over a low flame and let it get thick as per you like.
• Serve hot with sambhar and coconut chutney; garnish it with coriander and 1 tsp ghee for extra flavor.