Ven Pongal
Ingredients :
- Raw rice - 1 cup
- Green gram dal -
1/3
cup
- Ghee - 2 tbs
- Black pepper - 11/2 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Salt - as required
- Water - 5 cups
- Broken cashew nuts - 1
tbs
- Finely cut ginger- 1
tbs (optional)
- Curry leaves - few
- Milk - 1/2cup
Method of Preparation:
Wash rice and dal and cook them together in five cups of water for 10 minutes.
Add salt, curry leaves and ginger with half a cup of milk. Simmer for a minute
and remove from fire.
Fry
cashew nuts, pepper and cumin seeds in ghee. Pour this over the rice- dal
mixture, mix well and serve steaming hot with ghee on top.
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