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Pongal Recipes |
There are many people who really love to have south Indian food, as it is very delicious. For those who really want to have some mouth watering south Indian dishes can make use of the pongal festival. You can visit any of your south Indian friends and neighbors house during the four days of pongal celebrations and have tempting pongal dishes.
For those who have no option but have some free time during the pongal days, can make use of the pongal recipes given below. The pongal recipes given below will help you to make homemade pongal dishes that you and your family can enjoy on the pongal festival.
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Pongal
Ingredients
1 cup of Rice
1/4 cup of Moong dal
/2- 1 tsp of jeera
1/2-1 tsp of peppercorns
1/2 tsp of powdered pepper
Few broken Cashewnuts
1/2 cup of dry Coconut
Small amount Turmeric
Ghee according to your taste
Method
- Start frying the Moong dal till you get a light flavor.
- Add rice and 2 to3 cups of water to the dal and make sure that the rice should cook slowly.
- Now Add turmeric powder, coconut, peppercorns and some amount of ghee to the rice and cook it.
- Now take a pan and put some ghee according to your taste and add jeera, peppercorns and cashew nuts to it.
- Mix the rice mixture that you have cooked and add pepper powder, salt and blend it with the ghee, jeera and cashew nuts.
- Your pongal dish is ready and you can serve it hot with Coconut Chutney, or Onion-Tomato curd.
Ven Pongal
Ingredients
1 Cup of Rice
1/4 Cup of Moong Dal
Black Pepper
1 Tbsp of jeera Powder
1 Tsp of Ginger Paste
1 Tbsp of Dry Dinger
1 Tsp of Heeng
Some Cashews
2 Tbsp of Ghee
6 Cups of Water
Salt
Method
- Rinse dal and rice nicely.
- Put 1 tbsp of ghee in a cooker and heat it.
- Add rice and dal in the cooker and fry it, till the ghee covers the mixture.
- Add all the ingredients apart from the Cashews.
- Add some water and cook it.
- When rice is crushed properly then decorate it with some cashews.
Rava Pongal
Ingredients
1 cup of Rava
1/2 cup of Moong Dal
Cashew Nuts
4 tbs of Ghee
Curry Leaves
1 tsp of Chopped Ginger
1 tsp of Black peppercorn
1 tsp of Cumin Seeds
Salt
Method
- Start frying rava without adding oil to it till it becomes really hot.
- Add black pepper and cumin seeds in ghee and fry them.
- Now Fry cashew nuts, curry leaves and chopped ginger.
- Mix moong dal with 1 cup of water and cook it.
- Now move the cooked dal in a heavy pan and add some water to it.
- Add salt according to your taste and let this boil.
- Start adding the fried rava to the cooked moong dal and stir it continuously till rava is completely cooked.
- Keep adding ghee till rava is cooking.
- Now add the powdered pepper, jeera, fried cashew nuts, curry leaves and chopped ginger.
- You can add some green chilly to make your rava Pongal spicy.
- Your rava pongal is ready and you can serve it with coconut chutney.
So try to follow the above Pongal recipes and cook some delicious pongal dishes.
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